Leah Baer

Leah Baer is a 73 year old writer, horsewoman, storyteller, wife, mother, grandmother, and lover of life. She has performed at the Grief Rites, Unchaste Readers, and Burnt Tongue reading series. She is fascinated by the shadow selves within us, and by Death, who always walks close beside us.
Leah passionately believes that women’s last late years can be the times of their greatest creativity, potency, and joy, which the French call, “Jouissance.” She lives her belief and has devoted herself to writing after recently retiring from a career in social work. To that end, she has studied with Tom Spanbauer, Lydia Yuknavitch, Liz Prato, and Ariel Gore. Most recently, she has been studying screenwriting with Andy Mingo and Chuck Palahniuk at the Corporeal Writing Center.
She made her storytelling debut in July, 2017 in ROAR, Fierce Female Storytelling, where she was filmed for the documentary of the same name.
Leah is currently working on her upcoming memoir, Athena Rising, and will be in New York in March, 2018 to be filmed in What I Couldn’t Say Then, a documentary about childhood abuse.

Portland, OR