Leah Griesmann has received grants and residencies from MacDowell, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Virginia Review Writers' Conference, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, as well as a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Weekly Rumpus, The Rattling Wall, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West and The Hong Kong Review. She has taught writing and literature at Boston University, San Jose State University, and Seoul National University in South Korea.