12 Facts About Lang Leav

Lang Leav would transcribe her poetry into books she made by hand, which she then passed around to her peers at school.

In 2012, Lang Leav began posting her poetry on Tumblr and her work amassed a large following.

Lang Leav signed with New York Agency, Writers House before she was offered a publishing deal with Andrews McMeel.

Lang Leav released Lullabies the following year which won the Goodreads Choice Award for Poetry.

Lang Leav subsequently published another five poetry titles: Memories The Universe of Us, Sea of Strangers and Love Looks Pretty on You, all of which were nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Poetry have been international bestsellers.

Lang Leav's second YA novel, Poemsia, was a Straits Times Bestseller and drew mainly positive reviews, with Marie Claire stating: 'Lang Leav writes masterfully from the perspective of her protagonist, an aspiring poet, and gives readers a backstage glimpse into the new-wave poetry movement.

Lang Leav has been a guest speaker at a number of international writers festival, including The Sydney Writers Festival, The Sharjah Book Fair, Auckland Writers Festival and was a headliner at the Mass Poetry Festival in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lang Leav writes mainly in rhyme, verse and prose poetry.

Lang Leav cites Robert Frost as an influence, for his use of colloquial language.

Maryanne Moll, an award-winning Filipino fictionist and a literary criticism student, said Lang Leav's poems are her way of exercising the trauma she inherited from her mother.

Lang Leav is occasionally attributed to the Instapoetry movement, which has been panned by the literary establishment as being derivative.

Whether Lang Leav's work falls into this genre has been a subject of contention.