Dustin Leavitt (b. 1955) is a writer and visual artist. He received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of Arizona in 1978 and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the same institution in 2002.


​In the 1970s Leavitt worked on a tramp freighter in the Bering Sea and as a square-rig sailor in the Caribbean. In the early 1980s he took up commercial fishing in Hawaii and then worked in the exhibitions departments of several art museums. He ran the exhibitions production department of The Center for Creative Photography from 1990 until 2002. In 2004 he fetched up on the shores of academia and is currently an Associate Professor teaching in the Creative Writing and Visual & Media Studies departments of the University of Redlands. He lives half the year in Southern California and the other half in Tucson, Arizona.
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​Leavitt produces drawings, photographs, visual bookworks, and works of writing. His writing has appeared in a variety of periodicals, journals, and anthologies, and his visual work in gallery and museum exhibitions.