PGHwrites: Yona Harvey’s Leap & Grow Feathers with Khirsten Scott

Join Khirsten Scott for a conversation with Yona Harvey on her upcoming collection Leap & Grow Feathers, which publishes on September 15, 2026.

Both an instruction and a divination, Leap & Grow Feathers is an extraordinary transmission. In her third full-length collection, Yona Harvey listens—to her predecessors, her instincts, and her environment—gleaning sense from the static fraying our nerves, knowing the personal and the historical travel along the same frequency.

You can purchase a copy of Leap & Grow Feathers at the City of Asylum Bookstore.

About the Author

Yona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, winner of The Believer Book Award in Poetry, and Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. Between the publication of her first two poetry books, Yona co-wrote Marvel Comics’ World of Wakanda, earning an Eisner Award for best limited series, and co-wrote the comic book series Black Panther & the Crew. Her third poetry collection, Season One, Episode Seven, is forthcoming in 2026.

About the Moderator

Khirsten L. Scott is a scholar, educator, and daughter of the U.S. South whose work centers language, story, place, and community. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education and Director of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project.