Christian Leahy is a story midwife, developmental editor, facilitator, and writer of mythic nonfiction.
Since she was a little girl she has tracked the threads of story through the wild, listening for what wants to emerge from the fertile dark and attending with care to all that is holy and shimmering with aliveness.
From groundbreaking bestsellers to award-winning documentaries and transformative TED Talks, Christian collaborates with people and projects committed to the power of story and narrative change to heal our connection to ourselves, Earth and each other.
She was the editor of the New York Times bestseller DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken and Katharine Wilkinson, and midwife to many other visionary works of nonfiction and memoir. Currently, she is an advisor to the All We Can Save Project, which supports courageous climate engagement—cultivating the emotional-spiritual root from which climate leadership grows.
Previously, Christian was a part of the communications team for 8 years at Bioneers, a national nonprofit dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth’s ecosystems and healing human communities. She also served as the Executive Director for the former New Mexico Women’s Foundation; facilitated story work and innovative adult education projects within the New Mexico prisons; and was a teaching artist in creative dramatics and ensemble theater in New Jersey, New York and northern New England.
Christian holds a Masters in Literature and Creative Writing from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She lives in northern New Mexico where she reverently wanders the sagebrush seas and the high-mountain forests, writes little stories of wonder, dances, cooks, loves her friends and community, and mothers a young man who dreams and makes cool things with his hands.
"My job in the revolution is as a storyteller... It's like a spell of possibility we spread, the possibility of a world better than the one we have." — Akwaeke Emezi