Gerri Leen has been obsessed with horse racing since she was a girl, growing up in the Seattle area, inhaling the Black Stallion novels, going to Longacres with her mother and aunt, and riding at
western horse camp on the weekends. Now retired in Northern Virginia, she still follows racing avidly. She writes both poetry and prose and also romance as Kim Strattford. Bluegrass Dreams Aren’t for Free is her first novel.

Her works have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Dark Matter, Escape Pod, Zooscape, and others. In 2024, she published her first poetry collection Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness and a fiction collection The Woman I Used to Be and Other Speculative Imaginings. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize as well as the Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars awards.