Lisa Glatt
Lisa Glatt is the author of the novels A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and The Nakeds. The leeches doctors applied to her mother’s chest decades ago still haunt her and stir up words. She lives in Long Beach, California. (lisaglatt.com)
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Feeding
Some leeches have two jaws. Others have three. Some have teeth on their tongues. There are protective leeches who hover over their eggs, and leeches who carry their newborns in pouches like tiny kangaroos.
June 2026
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