Leah Lax has won awards in both fiction and nonfiction and published in numerous anthologies and other publications both print and online, including Dame, Lilith, and Salon. Her work for stage was reviewed in the New York Ties and broadcast on NPR. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston.

In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story—beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew, and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she’s known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, cult-like faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim, and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmer beneath the surface throughout her time there.

The first book to tell the story of a gay woman who spent thirty adult years in the Hasidic fold, Uncovered is the moving story of Lax’s long journey toward finding a home where she truly belongs.