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Cat Ingrid Leeches
@leeches.bsky.social
Writer, weird stuff enthusiast. Nonbinary (they/them). I love zines and bad-bad art. If it is not bad enough, I will not love it.
Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.

I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.

My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Almost stepped on this baby today 🐍
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Some folks have started receiving their preorders of I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, and I’ve loved seeing your photos and messages. Thank you for sharing them with me! If you haven’t picked up a copy yet and would like to, it’s still available through @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.
July 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A quick reminder that this reading is tomorrow! DM me if you want the registration link.
June 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you so much @saramatson.bsky.social for inviting me to be a part of your awesome reading series.

If you come through, DM me your address and I’ll send you a weird doodle in the mail (totally optional, I just thought it would be fun).
June 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Entry #10 is live right now 🐀🦇✨
June 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My campy, oozy hybrid plague journal is now live in issue 3 of @anewsession.com! The first entry is currently available, and new fragments of the diary will unlock every 1 hour and 43 minutes.

web.issue3.anewsession.com/story_index
June 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I’m babysitting two precious monsters: Bowl (pictured) and Ode (not pictured).
May 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’m depressed (sunshine makes me moody) and I bought over-priced stickers at a tourist shop today. I felt these two in my bones though, like I had no will at all:
April 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New Orleans has some great feral cats ✨🦇
April 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I’m headed to the New Orleans Poetry Festival. I love the coast and the way it oozes inside my disgruntled, oily tissues. We saw dolphins on the ferry. We treat each grackle we meet like a celebrity.
April 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Once, I named a foster kitten Saint Theresa of the Ecstatic Tire Iron AKA purrrrvert and he was adopted by a friend who was a secret, deeply devout Catholic. This was her poster.

We haven’t spoken in years. I wonder if the kitten is now Catholic.
March 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Has anyone else read Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal? I’m digging it so far
March 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
February 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“She was always in want of pity. She lived for pity. Give it to me, Anna thought as she told her colleagues about her awful pains, I want to drink their pity like semen, her mind screamed”
February 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Artist Frank Moore predicted the existence and career of Robert Pattinson (tbh, I think Pattinson was alive in 94, but I doubt he had gone through puberty yet)
December 31, 2024 at 9:42 PM
This is what I’m reading now that my grades are (finally, FINALLY) in:
December 17, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Hey poets, you are really good at hurting my fucking feelings. Stop it.
December 12, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Timely, no? “Louis XVI Goes To The Guillotine” by Benjamin Péret and translated by Charles Simic.
December 8, 2024 at 5:15 PM
A controversial opinion: I love the notes/annotations left by strangers in library books. It makes me feel weirdly alive.
November 23, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Look, I’m trying really hard to post less of my personal life on social media. HOWEVER, this little cat owns my mind, body, and soul and is responsible for a great deal of my brain rot (I happily lap up her parasites). If you have such a creature, feel free to show me pictures ANY TIME.
November 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Something, something the duality of man…
November 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
2 brains, 1 cup!
November 19, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I love walking around town in the morning and getting to know the locals.

(This cat is not mine! He came and said hello, and then told his friends I was ok. I got to pet quite a few kitties as a result.)
November 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM
This is an interview with Marie Redonnet that appears at the end of this edition of Forever Valley (translated by Jordan Stump/UNP edition). In particular I’m drawn to:

“…a poetic power make visible that which has been neither described nor expressed by metaphor, but rather only evoked.”
November 13, 2024 at 8:38 PM