Nick Leininger is a local DC poet originally from West Chester, Pennsylvania. Nick graduated from American University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Strategic Communications. Nick has 12 poems published across a series of anthologies and online magazines. His work is featured in Bleakhouse Publishing, Burgeon Online, Day Eight, The Mid Atlantic Review, and Wingless Dreamer. Nick’s poems explore the relationship between race and class, love and faith, and mental illness, as he analyzes a nation grappling with inequality, injustice, and systemic racism.
