LESLIE WHAT

Leslie What is a writer of fantasy, literary fiction and nonfiction. She began publishing in 1992 with a story for Asimov's Science Fiction. In 1999 she won the Nebula Award for The Cost of Doing Business, published in Amazing Stories. She has published more than 60 short stories and is the author the novel Olympic Games, and the short story collection Crazy Love, a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award for fiction. Crazy Love, with an introduction by Kate Wilhelm, received Publishers Weekly and Booklist starred reviews, and was listed by Booklist as one of the Top Ten Science Fiction Books of 2008. The collection also won a gold medal in the Next Generation Indie Awards. She is also the author of The Sweet and Sour Tongue, published in 2002.

What’s writing has appeared in the anthologies Witpunk, Bending the Landscape, Interfictions, The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road, and in numerous journals, including Utne Reader, Oregun 55, Perigree, Lilith, Calyx, The Clackamas Review, Asimov's, Parabola, and True Love.

What received her MFA in writing from Pacific University, worked as a licensed vocational nurse, volunteered with the Chevra kadisha – the Jewish Burial Society, and taught writing in The Writers' Program at UCLA.

“Over the past few years I have been watching Leslie What blossom from a nice little comic talent into a great big scary comic talent.” —Damon Knight

“The seventeen achingly funny and hilariously sad stories in “Crazy Love” will give you invaluable advice on how to love, how to be crazy, how to be human.” —Ursula Le Guin.

For more information: http://www.sff.net/people/Leslie.What/