Gracie Leavitt (Playwright) is a poet, storyteller and writer for performance interested in amplifying underheard histories and supporting narrative change in collaboration with experts in their own fields and experiences. Her work is anchored in the lyric, experiment, documentary and deep listening. Publications include the poetry collections Livingry and Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star, and she composed the text for the play Pitch, directed by Benjamin Mosse and staged at La MaMa as a production of Richard Schechner’s East Coast Artists. Jeffrey Gavett and Taylor Brook have set her poems to music for vocal performance, with a recording featured on the Byrne:Kozar:Duo’s “It Floats Away from You”. Gracie has also written and edited for television, including an essay voiced by Candace Parker. Having previously lived in and loved Philadelphia, Brooklyn and St. Louis, she currently resides in Maine, on the traditional lands of the Wabanaki, with her partner and two small children.