WELCOME | བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་
Opinionated Tibetan American Storyteller
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Photo by Anna Tsomo Leidecker
I am Lekey Leidecker (she/her/མོ་), a writer dedicated to telling stories of myself and my people.

Read my Medium page here.

Want to work together? Great! Contact me here.

You can learn more about my work here and about me here.

CURRENTLY

Find me:
  • On Asymptote’s blog about the #TibetanWomenPoets High Peaks Pure Earth Takeover by author Shelly Bhoil
  • Writing (virtually) in the Tibetan Writers Group Spring Workshop in London
  • Reading Tibet: A History in an online book club
  • Washing my groceries
  • Resting!
Writing:
  • Poems: Tsenpo
  • Essays: on my thwarted computer science career, on revisiting Harry Potter as an adult in the Tibetan diaspora
  • First draft of historical science fiction story set in several different time periods in Tibetan history
Reading:
  • Tibet: A History by Sam Van Schaik (for above project)
  • Paisley Rekdal (poetry and essays), Erin Jin Mei O’Malley (poetry)
  • Family Trust by Kathy Wang
  • Remembered Rapture by bell hooks