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University of Michigan.
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Jeanne Leiby
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Leiby"s short stories were published in several United States. literary journals, including Fiction, Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, and New Orleans Review. Leiby also served as fiction editor of Black Warrior Review and as the Editor in Chief of the Florida Review (2004–2007). In Spring 2008, she took over as editor of The Southern Review at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In her early career working as an intern at a publishing house, she was responsible for finding and publishing White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
She also taught fiction writing and creative writing at UCF (University of Central Florida) for a couple of years, leaving in 2008 for her new job at the Southern Review. She also served as the editor of the Florida Review for the duration of her stay.
She was hugely influential to her students, helping many of them pursue careers in writing as well. Leiby grew up downriver Detroit.
She earned a Bachelor at the University of Michigan, an Master of Arts at the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and an Master of Fine Arts at the University of Alabama.
She was killed in a car accident in Louisiana on April 19, 2011. Police reports said she was driving a 2007 Saturn convertible with the top down. She was not wearing a seat belt.
She lost control of the vehicle, hit the guardrail almost head on and was ejected from the vehicle.
She was taken by helicopter to hospital, but she was pronounced dead on arrival.
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Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.