When I was twelve years old, I didn’t know that on my last day as a professional ballerina, I would be wearing a stupid, oversized black satin ribbon on top of my head. A heavy, circus dress pulling at my waist, my hips. The night before, I had a tutu. I was the second girl […]
Stefanie Leigh
Stefanie Leigh is a poet and ballet dancer based in Toronto. She was a dancer with American Ballet Theatre and is currently working on her first poetry collection, Swan Arms. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rust & Moth, SWWIM, Frozen Sea and elsewhere.