Leanne Sowul is a writer of novels, short stories, magazine articles, and children's books. Her short story, "Amish Girl," was published in the Spring 2014 issue of Confrontation literary journal. She has also recently written articles for Hudson Valley Parent magazine, and guest posts for American Scar Stories and Words of Wisdom from the Female Yoda.
Leanne is currently seeking agents to represent her powerful 88,000-word, multiple-perspective historical fiction novel, Triangle Fire, about the events surrounding New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 and the preceding Shirtwaist Strike of 20,000 in 1909.
Along with her children's book writing partner, Cristen Dimas, Leanne is also seeking publishers for their unique series on the ups and downs of learning musical instruments, the "Miss Mulberry Music" books.
Other projects-in-progress include a nonfiction book about living life with a cancer survivor's perspective; a YA novel about a group of friends who decide that they can "raise themselves" by following the principles of a popular children's book; and varied short stories.
Leanne lives in the Hudson Valley area of New York with her husband and two-year-old son. In addition to being a writer (or perhaps vice versa), she is an elementary band teacher and flutist.
She is proud to be a survivor of childhood cancer.
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