Leanne Phillips is a lifelong Californian. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books,&nbsp;Kelp Journal,&nbsp;The Rumpus, and&nbsp;The Coachella Review.

Leanne Phillips

Beheaded

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Ghosts on the Page: Alice Cary’s “Hagar: A Story of To-Day” and Other Lost Books

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Leanne Phillips is a lifelong Californian. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books,&nbsp;Kelp Journal,&nbsp;The Rumpus, and&nbsp;The Coachella Review.