Hi, I'm Leah Goggins. I'm a writer. I love writing, and I'll write just about anything. You need a few hundred words about the state of Birmingham's little pocket of the film industry? I can do that. You want some copy about a man who saw a UFO in the sky a few decades ago? Maybe just a few words about your vacation rental company? Or maybe even something about how celebrities feed their kids? I can do that. Anything else you need, I can figure it out. That's a promise.
EATINGWELL
THERAPY
VACATIONS
I designed and maintain the website for Therapy Vacations, a boutique, family-run vacation rental company based outside of Birmingham, Alabama. I also run the company's Facebook ad campaigns, which includes selecting photos—often photos I took myself—writing copy and designing a target demographic with Facebook's audience tools.
THE CRIMSON WHITE
& ALICE MAGAZINE
TUSCALOOSA LOCALS PROFILE THE STRIP IN NEW DOCUMENTARY
September 2019
In 1865, with Confederate troops having deserted the University of Alabama campus, the Union Army set the place ablaze. That was more than 150 years ago, but Taylor Watson feels like that’s about as long as he’s been in Tuscaloosa.
“The Yankees had just left when we got here,” Watson said.
BAMA FANS CAMP OUT ON 'GUMP TWITTER'
November 2019
Celebrities have stan Twitter. The Crimson Tide has Gump Twitter.
Gump Twitter, like most other corners of the internet, hosts a spectrum of personalities, from devoted Finebaum callers to current UA students. They’re what two-time University of Alabama grad Lacey Cencula would call “a different tier of people.”
INT. BIRMINGHAM - FILM INDUSTRY
Spring 2020
A few days before she was due on set in Naples, Florida, Virginia Newcomb sat at one of the many tables in Birmingham’s Pizitz Food Hall, raking her chopsticks through a Poké bowl and settling in for her eighth interview of the week.
“This is probably the third thing today and the eighth thing this week where I’m talking about this kind of stuff,” Newcomb said. “It’s my world right now.”
CRAFTING NEWSLETTERS
In 2020, I designed the MailChimp template that replaced The Crimson White's print edition, which had been a campus staple since 1894. The newsletter still runs today, using the same template. For the 2020–2021 volume of The Crimson White, I wrote 55 editions of the newsletter. Below are four examples.
FACES
A s managing editor of The Crimson White, I designed cartoons for staff members to use as social media profile images, email newsletter illustrations and website profile images.
