- Leslie What
Leslie What (born Leslie Nelson,
1955 ) is a writer of fantasy and literary fiction and nonfiction. She began publishing in1992 with a story forAsimov's Science Fiction . In1999 she won theNebula Award for "The Cost of Doing Business," published inAmazing Stories . Her story collaboration withEileen Gunn , "Nirvana High" was nominated for the 2005 Nebula Award fornovelette . She has published more than 60 short stories, and her work has appeared in "Parabola",Lilith Magazine , "The Clackamas Review",Sci Fiction , "Witpunk", "Bending the Landscape", "The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road" and other anthologies and magazines.What's father was a teenage conscript who fled Stalin's
Red army as Berlin was being partitioned at the end of WWII. He chose the surname "Nelson" after arriving in the United States. Her mother is a Holocaust survivor who was interned in theRiga Ghetto . The stories in her collection, "The Sweet and Sour Tongue" incorporate [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1587151588/ "elements of science fiction and fantasy into domestic scenes of Jewish family life."]What worked as a
licensed vocational nurse and later volunteered with theChevra kadisha – the Jewish Burial Society. She lives inEugene, Oregon and was a contributing writer to thealternative newspaper , "The Eugene Weekly ". She received her MFA in Writing in 2006 atPacific University and teaches writing at UCLA Extension in The Writers Program (http://www.uclaextension.edu/).Bibliography
*Sweet and Sour Tongue (2000)
*Olympic Games (2004)
*Crazy Love (2008)External links
* [http://www.sff.net/people/Leslie.What/ "What world"]
* [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040726/what_interview.shtml Interview at Strange Horizons]
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* [http://www.sfsite.com/07b/lw132.htm Interview at SFSite]
* [http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/what/what_bio.html Bio and Bibliography at Sci-Fiction]
* [http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/interview/michael_chabon/ Interview with Michael Chabon]
* [http://www.newvilnareview.com/features/why-i-wash-the-dead.html Essay on Jewish Burial Society]
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