Kendra Preston Leonard

words for and about music

I'm a scholar focusing on music and screen history and women and music; and a poet, playwright, lyricist, and librettist.

“Strawberry Man,” and Now Available by Lisa Neher and me, to be performed by Lisa at the Darkwater Womxn in Music Festival, 24-25 September 2021.

Act 1, Scene 1 of Protectress, an opera in progress by Jessica Rudman and me, 24 and 26 September 2021, in the Great Hall of the LuEsther T. Mertz South Oxford Space, Brooklyn. Full information here!

“Lammas,” forthcoming in easing the edges: a collection of everyday miracles.

“Concrete,” just published in Scapegoat Review.

You can still watch all 5 new micro-operas from the One Voice Project Micro-Opera Festival from March here. These feature 5 terrific singers in great performances.

Collection Connections: Hazel Burnett’s Impact on Film Music, the Harry Ransom Center (online), September 23.

“Recognizing the Truth of ‘Craft’,” The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching, Summer 2021.

Hidden Narratives: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment, co-edited with Paula Bishop, forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi, 2022.

“Women and Technology in Music for the Silent Cinema,” in Player Pianos in Early 20th-Century Life, ed. Catherine Hennessy Wolter, 2022.