Leslie lives in San Diego with her husband Bill and mini-dachshund, Audrey Dog. After retiring from a career in management, she focused on her college major, Creative Writing. Leslie studied with San Diego’s first Poet Laureate, Ron Salisbury, and co-founded a Poetry Salon. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in publications including Catamaran Literary Reader, Cloudbank, Crab Orchard Review, Faultline, The MacGuffin, The Main Street Rag, The Muleskinner Journal, ONE ART, Quartet Journal, Sheila-Na-Gig, South Carolina Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Tar River Poetry, and Whale Road Review.