Leah Saint-John (b. 28/12/1998)—previously active under the name Lianna Schreiber—is a Romanian writer.
♦ Stylistically somewhere between Keats / Arghezi / Swinburne / Rilke & Celan; mostly when you think of me I wish you’d think Oh, it’s a Saint-John piece, no wonder.
♦ Culturally a product of my environment—ergo profoundly Eastern-European. (And within that: indelibly Romanian.) (And within that: Filomela Delavlașca, gen.) It is our myths and folklore which engendered my love of literature: it is the sprawling green hills which sustain it.
♦ I began teaching myself English as a preteen, motivated chiefly by poverty. I could afford to thrift for books now and again, but that was the extent of the money my mother could afford to dedicate to my leisure. While dodgy websites hosting bootlegged albums and foreign films with Romanian softsubs were easy enough to find, books, especially the sort of books I wanted to read, were hard to get underhand in anything but English. Ecce magistra pupillae.
♦ It was Keats who made me fall in love with poetry. (Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?) I started to write some of my own, badly, around 2016.
♦ The choice of Saint-John as a surname is unrelated, if felicitous.
♦ All writing featured on this blog—unless expressly indicated otherwise—is my own work. I have been part of the writeblr sphere since 2017, publishing solely under the ragewrites masthead. My greatest—and strangest—‘claim to fame’ is the slug post.
♦ You may reblog anything that catches your fancy. Including my poems in web weaves, using lines I’ve written for fanfic or fanart titles—things of this sort are alright, so long as proper credit is provided.
♦ Please do not repost my work, here or on other platforms.
♦ I welcome polite curiosities, questions about my writing and questions about writing in general. However, please do not treat me as though I am an NPC in the grand quest of your life. Proselytizers, in particular, will be blocked.
