Welcome! I’m Leah Davenport.

Writer, reader, traveler, sometime podcaster. Texas-based with one foot in an airport terminal and the other in a paragraph I’m trying to make better.

By day, I’m a content strategist working with nonprofit organizations. By night (and weekend), I write essays, fiction, and the occasional wry observation about culture, faith, and whatever I’ve most recently overthought. My background is in literary fiction—I earned my MFA back when blogs were still a thing—and I’m currently at work on a novel about second chances and the long shadows of our twenties.

Most of my recent nonfiction writing lives over on Not in the Outline, my Substack newsletter. It's where I share missives on writing, travel, cultural commentary, and faith, all while trying to hold the reader’s attention with a dash of humor. If that sounds like your thing, I’d love to have you join me there.

I also run Traveling Fadlings—a visual travel journal I share with my husband (an airline pilot and very patient photo-taker). It’s a peek into our life of standby flights, quirky layovers, and all the beauty we try to catch along the way.

This site is a home base for now. If I publish a book someday (fingers crossed), this is where you’ll find out first. Until then, consider it a lightly curated corner of the internet for readers, wanderers, and those of us still figuring out the outline.

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Currently Working On

I’m deep in the trenches of writing on a novel about the people we almost become—and the ones we leave behind. It’s a second-chance love story about two former college sweethearts who reconnect years later, after choosing ambition over each other and living with the consequences.

The story moves between their early twenties and early-thirties, tracing how timing, faith, and fear shaped their lives. It’s about airports, missed calls, the stories we tell ourselves, and the ones we can’t stop living.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you made the wrong choice for the right reasons, or whether it's possible to go back and get it right, this love story is for you.