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Opinionated Tibetan American Storyteller
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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:
  • Forthcoming in the inaugural issue of Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts, and Humanities, a huge honor, and in the inaugural issue of Diaspora Baby Blues
  • Forever in the archive reading alongside my literary hero Tommy Pico
  • Getting “you’re so great but we still aren’t going to hire/publish you” letters
  • Submitting my chapbook to contests, hit me up if you want to publish it!
Writing:
  • or attempting to write a new version of my essay on mask-wearing in the wake of the Atlanta shooting
  • An essay on why Headspace and the mindfulness industry owes cold, hard, cash to Tibetans
  • An introductory, practical self-care guide for Tibetans (stay tuned!)
Reading:
  • Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor (check out her absolutely bad-ass genre self-definition in this blog post on why she’s an Africanfuturist)
  • and being mad that no one introduced me sooner to the work of Black Kentuckian woman author Crystal Wilkinson