About
Leyla Brittan is the author of the young adult novel Ros Demir Is Not the One (Holiday House 2024).
Originally from Chappaqua, New York, she received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming in 2023, and she graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with an A.B. in English and a Secondary Concentration in Computer Science.
Her short fiction has appeared in Pigeon Pages, 5x5, and The Harvard Advocate, and has been nominated for Best American Short Stories. She has attended workshops in fiction writing, screenwriting, playwriting, and journalism through Tin House, Harvard University, the UVA Young Writers Workshop, and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.
She is also an actor and singer; while at Harvard, she toured internationally with the jazz a cappella group The Radcliffe Pitches, and she has most recently appeared onstage in Relative Theatrics’ productions of Black Sky and Arsonist.
She has a background in outdoor sports, and has written for the rock climbing magazines Rock and Ice and Gym Climber. She is a recreational rock climber, skier, hiker, runner, and PADI-certified Open Water Diver.
Contact
Literary Agent:
Alexander Slater | Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
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