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:
  • Thinking about loneliness in a diasporic Tibetan valentine to land on my Medium page
  • 28 February 2020: Taking over the High Peaks Pure Earth Instagram as part of the exciting Tibetan women poets takeover series (along with many incredible Tibetan women poets!).
  • Writing with other Tibetans in the Tibetan Writers Group Spring Workshop in London
  • Trying to find decent coffee in London
Writing:
  • First draft of historical science fiction story set in several different time periods in Tibetan history
  • Poem in dialogue with George Bogle, a Scottish man described by Wikipedia as an "adventurer" who was "first to establish diplomatic relations with Tibet"
  • Poem: “apa and I discuss racism”
Reading:
  • Everything I can get my hands on by Palestinian-American writer Noor Hindi (start with poem "Ode to Friendship")
  • Same for mixed Mescalero and Lipan Apache, Latin@, and European poet Julian Talamantez Brolaski (start with poem "stonewall to standing rock")
  • Tibet: A History by Sam Van Schaik (for above project)
  • Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots by James Syhabout