Leslie What is an Oregon writer, writing teacher, and editor. She received a Nebula Award for short story and is the author of the story collection, "Crazy Love" (Wordcraft of Oregon), a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award for fiction. Her writing has been published in numerous anthologies, including "Witpunk", "Bending the Landscape", "Logorrhea", "Interfictions", "The Mammoth book of Tales from the Road", "Best New Horror", and in journals, including "Lilith", "Calyx", "The Los Angeles Review", "Asimov's", "Parabola", "Midstream", "Utne Reader", and "True Love". "Crazy Love" received PW and Booklist starred reviews, and was listed by Booklist as one of the Top Ten SF Books of 2008. The story collection also won a gold medal in the Next Generation Indie Awards. Leslie is the fiction editor of the journal "Phantom Drift: New Fabulism" and nonfiction co-editor with R.A. Rycraft of "Winter Tales: Women on the Art of Aging" from Servinghouse Books. She has been a nurse and caregiver and has sat on the boards of directors for Hadassah, The Clarion Foundation, and the Young Writers Association. She admires transgressive characters in literature and admits to feeling wrongful pride that her Parson Russel Terrier was banished from doggy daycare for tyrannizing the Rotties.