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Leslie What
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Leslie What has sold some fifty short stories since making her debut
in 1992 in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. She also writes
nonfiction and poetry. She has been a nurse, a performance artist,
a maskmaker, and Jello artist -- (or, as she says, "imagine George Sand
/ Martha Stewart / Ernie Kovacs, with attitude").
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Leslie attended the Clarion Writing Workshop after nursing school.
When Clarion ended, she moved her stethoscope, typewriter, and tap
shoes to Oregon, where she worked as a nurse, performed as a tap-dancing
gorilla, and studied writing with her Clarion mentors Damon Knight and
Kate Wilhelm.
In the past ten years or so, she has managed a low-income food program,
volunteered as a Campfire Youth group leader, written for an alternative
weekly, written confessions, written documentary scripts -- one of which
was produced on PBS -- written manuals on aging and caregiving, and edited
a book of poetry by at-risk youth. She has been an Artist-in-Schools and
has taught writing at several conferences. She currently volunteers with
a religious burial society and another social service organization. She
works at home as an antiques dealer and freelance writer, and was a
writer-in-residence at Clarion in Summer 2002.
You can read more about her on her website at
http://www.sff.net/people/leslie.what
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