Jeanne M. Leiby, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJeanne M. Leiby
American writer and magazine editor
Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1964
Date of Death: 19-Apr-2011
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Jeanne M. Leiby
- Jeanne Leiby (September 3, 1964 - April 19, 2011) was an American teacher, fiction writer and literary magazine editor.
- Leiby's short stories were published in several U.S.
- literary journals, including Fiction, Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, and New Orleans Review.
- In 2000, she won the Poets and Writers Writer Exchange.
- Her first collection of short stories, Downriver, was published by Carolina Wren Press as the 2006 winner of the Doris Bakwin prize.
- Leiby also served as fiction editor of Black Warrior Review and as the Editor in Chief of the Florida Review (2004–2007).
- In Spring 2008, she took over as editor of The Southern Review at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.In her early career working as an intern at a publishing house, she was responsible for finding and publishing White Oleander by Janet Fitch. She also taught fiction writing and creative writing at UCF (University of Central Florida) for a couple of years, leaving in 2008 for her new job at the Southern Review.
- She also served as the editor of the Florida Review for the duration of her stay.
- She was hugely influential to her students, helping many of them pursue careers in writing as well. Leiby grew up downriver Detroit.
- She earned a BA at the University of Michigan, an MA at the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and an MFA at the University of Alabama.She was killed in a car accident in Louisiana on April 19, 2011.
- Police reports said she was driving a 2007 Saturn convertible with the top down.
- She was not wearing a seat belt.
- She lost control of the vehicle, hit the guardrail almost head on and was ejected from the vehicle.
- She was taken by helicopter to hospital, but she was pronounced dead on arrival.
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