![]() This is Leslie’s debut novel, or novela perhaps. I’m currently studying for my PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. My novel Bodies of Water, hailed a “feminist ghost story” was published by Salt Publishing and has just been translated into French. ![]() James and Shirley Jackson and was nominated for both the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award. My debut short story collection Skein and Bone garnered comparisons to M.R. I won the Lightship First Chapter Prize in 2013 and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award in the category of novelette. I’m a Hawthornden Fellow and was recently awarded a place at the Saari Institute in Finland, where I was researching Nordic myth and folklore. My short stories have appeared in a range of speculative publications, including Black Static, Interzone and Shadows and Tall Trees and have been reprinted in a range of “Year’s Best” anthologies. I like stories that are driven by setting and those that make connections to other texts, to mythology, folklore and art. I enjoy reading and writing fiction that focuses on psychological issues and perspectives, that blurs boundaries or takes place within liminal or marginal spaces. Although I always knew that I wanted to write fiction, it was only recently that I began in earnest. ![]() I taught English A Level for a number of years and I still write academic articles for a range of literary publications. I came to books early and enjoyed them so much that I’ve spent the best part of my life studying them. ![]()
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