Her work has been shown nationally, including galleries in Philadelphia, New York, and Portland. In 2010 Leigh received a fellowship through the Daisy Soros Prize and the American Austrian Foundation to study at the Salzburg International Summer Art Academy. She was also awarded a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship underwritten in part by the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Leigh received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 and her BA from Hampshire College in 2001. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the International Center of Photography.