Who is Anna?
A Virginia Beach-born, Richmond-based poet and songwriter, Anna Leonard crafts indie-pop melodies layered with vivid, image-driven lyrics, creating music rooted in sincerity and emotional honesty. Her debut album, Paint It Blue, came out on September 19th, 2025.
Outside of her music life, she is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the Lead Media Editor and Associate Podcast Editor for Blackbird and a reader for Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her poems are published or forthcoming in The Florida Review, Southeast Review, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere.
Selected publication: “Dysthymia” in Emerge Literary Journal
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