Brinson Leigh Kresge

Kresge served as co-fiction editor on the literary magazine Ecotone from 2023 to 2025 and as a reader and fact-checker from 2022 to 2023. She was the developmental and content editor for Shawn Humphry’s 2024 publication, Rewild School: A Pedagogy of Possibility, and 2025 book of essays, Football Is: What the Game Does To Us, For Us, Through Us. She is the Co-director of ​Sarus Festival for Site-specific and Experimental Art, and works as a freelance editor and one-on-one with writers as a writing coach.

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Editorial Statement:
I create art because I thrive on crafting something that has not existed before —a creation that can make people feel less isolated and has the potential to broaden their perspective or understanding through a unique lived experience. This desire for creation and connection provides the impetus and value system for my editorial work. I value art as practice and participating in that process with others to help them discover and refine their unique artistic vision. I value authenticity and self-work as means to more fully inhabit ourselves in a way that allows for truer connection. I value moving toward that which is hard and being uncomfortable for the sake of individual and societal growth. I value the opportunity to engage in these practices with people who want better for themselves and beyond.

 

​Kresge holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, a BA in Dance and Choreography, and a BA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University.

 

She loves lists (especially incongruous ones), semi-colons, and them em-dashes. Despite being a closet Luddite, she holds endless gratitude for spellcheck.

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Contact Leigh about freelance editing or writing coach services.