Charles Leggett

Charles Leggett is a professional actor based in Seattle, WA, and a 2022 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. His poetry has been published in the US, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India and Nigeria. Recent publications include THE POET , Present Tense Lit Mag, The Hollins Critic, Subjectiv Journal , and Firewords Magazine ; his “Neighbor’s Lament” was awarded a 2022 Laureate’s Choice Prize in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. Charles’s poetry film short To Fondle Nothing is, as of this writing, an Official Selection in 24 film festivals in the US, the UK, France, Portugal, Sweden, Serbia, Italy, Austria and Turkey. He is currently at work co-adapting Maxim Gorky's magnum opus, The Lower Depths , for a production by Seattle's The Seagull Project in early 2024.