Leyla Josephine
Poet
Leyla Josephine
Leyla Josephine is a poet, theatre practitioner and filmmaker.
In 2019, she performed for the First Minister of Scotland and supported John Cooper Clarke on his Scottish tour. She has been on the same bill as the likes of Kate Tempest, Lowkey and Hollie McNish.
Leyla released her book Hopeless with Speculative Books which is a documentation of her solo show of the same name. She is included Choice Words: Writers On Abortions alongside the likes Margaret Atwood, Audre Lorde and Gloria Steinem. She has been featured in Gutter Magazine, Neu! Reekies! anthology Untitled 3 and The Centenary Collection for Edwin Morgan. She has been featured in The National, The Scotsman, The Guardian, Huffington Post, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Social.
She was named in The List’s Top 100 Artists To Watch in 2019.