Leslie Anne Mcilroy

Author • Copywriter • Award-Winning Poet.

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  • About
    • Interviews
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    • The Red Door
    • Slag
    • Liquid Like This
    • Rare Space
  • Publications
    • Poetry
      • Performance
    • Flash Fiction
  • Résumé & Work Samples
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  • YAH-HUH POSTS
  • Regal, classic American bald eagle perched on a branch
    environmentalism,  social conscience,  Social Justice

    YA-HUH #8 What’s Goin’ Down?

    Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash

    By Leslie Mcilroy April 20, 2025
  • Long shot of Hands Off rally in Shadyside PA 4/5/25
    Politics,  Social Justice

    YAH-HUH! #7 The Noise of It

    Be Quiet  — March for Our Lives, Washington DC, 2018 First published in Vox Populi, 2021   Where we went today, we went with the world. It was beautifully sad and the food was bad. The secret police wore shirts…

    By Leslie Mcilroy April 10, 2025
  • Girl looking forward. Boy looking backward. Opposites.
    Politics,  Social Interaction

    The Dating Politic

    Today i offer you a piece I wrote a while back (pandemic era) that has never been published.  Since, I have found, met, and entwined my life with a beautiful man who thinks a bit like me and has a…

    By admin April 3, 2025
  • Unused pink triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter T found by US forces; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    LGBTQIA,  Uncategorized

    Yah-Huh! #5 Bent

    I met a friend for coffee last week. He happens to have a trans son, too. Both of our children go by the name Silas — such a beautiful androgynous name.   He shared his concerns about this administration. “What do…

    By admin March 28, 2025
  • Crocheted peace sign
    Art,  Social Justice

    Crochet Peace

    It occurs to me that my last post may have seemed a bit braggarty — is that a word? Like I was trying to boast about  how passionate I am about fighting injustice/inhumanity and to caring for all our small…

    By Leslie Mcilroy March 20, 2025
  • Beige Pitt bull Terrier (Butter) asleep with his tongue hanging out
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    A Waste of a Life

    As an almost 45-year, Type-1 diabetic, healthcare has been my lifeline. The only semblance of a pancreas I’ve had since I was 16 is a squatter spot in my body paid for by Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Each year, I spend…

    By Leslie Mcilroy March 14, 2025

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Meet the Author

Leslie Anne Mcilroy is a prize-winning poet, copywriter, and author from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where she lives with her son Silas. Her accolades include the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her full-length collection Rare Space and the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards. Her third book Slag by Main Street Rag Publishing Company was runner-up to their 2014 Poetry Book Prize. She won the 2018 Gemini Flash Fiction contest for her piece, “The Old Point.” Leslie also was co-founder of HEArt — Human Equity through Art. 

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