ByAya de Leon

Aya de Leon directs the Poetry for the People program in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Her work has appeared in Essence Magazine, Ebony, Woman's Day, Writers Digest, Guernica, Fusion, Reductress, Quartz, Hip Mama, The Honest Courtesan, and Bitch Magazine. She blogs about culture, gender, and race at andayadeleon.wordpress.com, and about being a debut novelist at TheDebutanteBall.com. Kensington Books will be publishing her feminist heist novel Uptown Thief in 2016.


  1. Space Babe Fantasies: On Geoff Marcy and Sexism in Science and Sci-Fi

    ByAya de Leon

    in Writing

    A few weeks ago, Geoff Marcy was being discussed as a potential Nobel Prize honoree. Then BuzzFeed leaked the story that Marcy had been found guilty of sexual harassment. Last Thursday, my colleagues and I received an email from the Chancellor of UC Berkeley informing us that Marcy had resigned.

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