Courtney LeBlanc is a poet, editor, and publisher based in Arlington, Virginia. Her poetry addresses grief, friendship, the body, and survival with candor and emotional directness. She is the author of four full-length collections: Beautiful and Full of Monsters (VA Press, 2020), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, 2021), Her Whole Bright Life (Write Bloody, 2023), winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, and Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat, 2025). She served as the third Poet Laureate of Arlington County, Virginia from 2023 to 2025. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press, and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow.