Leonarda Carranza

Leonarda Carranza’s writing has been published in Room, The New Quarterly, and Best Canadian Essays. Her essay “Tongues” is part of Room Magazine’s first women of colour edition. She recently won the CNF contest for Briarpatch Magazine. She holds a Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where her research examined the experience of racial injury through the lens of humiliation and shaming.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2018*

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