Pomona , California Western Waters . © Sant Khalsa , 2000 – 2002 . Courtesy of the artist and Kopeikin Gallery , Los Angeles .
Mackenzie Leighton grew up in Maine and is currently studying social justice and arts activism at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University . She is minoring in creative writing and her poetry has been published on
Confluence and in
The Gallatin Review , winning the 2016 Rubin Prize for Poetry .
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