LeWslie What

PODCASTS, ETC.

• WAYBACK a podcast
• Check out OLD BABY by Leslie What on YouTube with music by Snake Peters
• Leslie reads TiLT for  Asimov's Science Fiction podcast, with sound editing by Gary Glasser

INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS

• A review of Leslie's novel "Olympic Games," by A. M. Dellamonica
  
• Leslie is interviewed by Trent Walters
• "Crazy Love" with an introduction by Kate Wilhelm reviewed by L. Timmel DuChamp in "American Book Review"
• "Crazy Love" reviewed in "New Pages" by Cynthia Reeser
• "Crazy Love" reviewed in the July 2009 "Perigee," by R.A. Rycraft, reprinted in "pif"
• "Crazy Love" made Edward Champion's list of Top Ten Books of 2008 and was reviewed in "The Washington Post"
• Ray Olson likes what he sees and "Booklist" includes "Crazy Love" in its Top 10
• Rick Kleffel groks "Crazy Love" in "The Agony Column"
• "Olympic Games" reviewed by Elizabeth Hand for "Fantasy&Science Fiction"
• Gregory Feeley interviews Ms. Leslie for "Strange Horizons"
• Interview by Unstuck Books, who are sadly no longer with us and I can't recall what they even said but I assume it was nice
  

JOURNALS

• "The Eleventh & Three-Quarters Hour" Sunday Morning Transport, Sunday, August 19, 2024
• "Wayback"  Khōréō 4.2, June 2024
• "The Inventor We May Learn Is More of a Conceptual Artist in Part Seven" Sunday, October 8, 2023 in Sunday Morning Transport
• "Tilt" Asimov's July/August 2023
• "Helicopter Mom" Daily Science Fiction, 2019
• "Shut Up and Eat Your Kale" KYSO Flash Fiction, Spring 2019
• "The Mutable Borders of Love" Lightspeed Magazine, 2017
• "Revolution" Belletrist, 2017
• "Aging in Place" at KYSO Flash, October 2014
• "Sob Story" Unstuck #3, March 2014
• "Three Sisters Have We in Our House" Serving House Journal, Spring 2013
• "Big Feet" Unstuck #1, October 2011
• "Crash" Los Angeles Review, Spring 2011
• "Milkweed" Serving House Journal, October 2010
• "Dog Eat Dog" Serving House Journal, April 2010
• "Dog Eat Dog" Contemporary World Literature
• "Counter" Flurb # 13
• "My Big Night Out With Thing" Flurb #11, Spring-Summer 2011
• "Living Waters" (essay) Utne Reader, Jan.-Feb. 2010 digest
• "The Elephant Man's Love Child" Daily Science Fiction
• "That Time of Year" (essay) Oregun 55, letterpress edition edited by Dean Rea
• "I Was a Toga-Clad Goddess in the Temple of Love" (essay) Perceptions Literary Magazine
• "Living Waters" (essay) Calyx, summer 2009
• "Grief Stamping" (essay) Perigee, July 2008
• "Why I Wash the Dead" (essay) New Vilna Review, April 2008
• "Money is No Object" Asimov's, October/November 2008
• "My Funny Holocaust" Midstream, March/April 2008, an essay on humor in Holocaust narrative and why it's sometimes just not funny (but why it sometimes is).
• "Number 1" Electric Velocipede, May 2008
• "Performance Anxiety" Perigee, July 2007
• "Frankenfetish" Flytrap, May 2007
• "The Morning Call of Birds" Clackamas Literary Review, May, 2006
• "2:30" Strange Horizons, Issue 13 December 2004
• "Aliens Captured Me, Implanted Alien Cookies in My Brain, used Anal Probes, Left me Naked in a Cornfield, and All I Got was This Tee-Shirt" (Poetry) Asimov's, March, 2006
• "Death Penalty" SciFiction, December, 2003
• "Dead Men On Vacation" Asimov's , February, 2005
• "Blind Date with the Invisible Man" Infinity Plus
• "The Changeling" Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #13
• "Love Me" The Infinite Matrix, June, 2004
• "Babies" The Third Alternative, issue #34, 2003
• "Of Two Minds" Infinite Matrix, September, 2002
• "Nothing Without a Name" Talebones, Spring, 2000
• "Picture a World Where All Men Are Named Harry" Quantum Speculative Fiction, issue 2, 1998
• "The Morning After" Asimov's, (poetry) Oct/Nov, 2000
• "Paper Mates" Asimov's, June, 2001
• "King for a Day" Asimov's, September, 1992
• "How to Mummify Your Used Sanitary Pads" Hysteria, Summer, 1993
• "Thanksgiving" SciFiction
• "The Goddess is Alive, And, Well, Living in New York City" Asimov's, May, 1996
• "Say Woof" Asimov's , July, 1998
• "The Cost of Doing Business" Amazing Stories, Winter, 1999
• "Why We Wash the Dead" (essay) Parabola, May, 2002
• "Let Me Count the Ways" Vestal Review #9
• "That Jellyfish Man Keeps A-Rollin" The Third Alternative #29, 2002
• "I Remember Marta" Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #9
• "Storytime" The MacGuffin, Spring, 2001
• "Things Don't Always Turn Out Like You Plan" Realms of Fantasy, November, 2000
•  "Finger Talk" Fugue #9, 1994
• "The Word You Never Say" Fiction Quarterly, March, 1998
• "What God Takes" Lilith, Fall, 1995
• "On Hearing Kazuhito Yamashita play Dvorak's New World Symphony" (Poetry) Japanophile, 1993
• "Clinging to a Thread" Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1994
• "Perils of Cleavage" Hysteria, Spring, 1994
• "Magic Carpets" Realms of Fantasy, September/October, 1995
• "Things The Mirror Sees" Talebones #2, January, 1996
• "Uncle Gorby and the Baggage Ghost" Fantasy and Science Fiction, March, 1996
• "Mothers' Day" Realms of Fantasy, February, 1997
• "In His Pants" Talebones #6, January, 1997
• "A Dark Fire, Burning From Within" Realms of Fantasy, June, 1997
• "Smelling of Earth, Dreaming of Sky" Asimov's, September, 1997
• "Haiku For Friendly Skies" Caffeine Destiny (poetry) June, 1998
• "Going Vampire" Realms of Fantasy, December, 1998

ANTHOLOGIES

• "Three Sisters Have We In Our House" Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging, edited by R.A. Rycraft and Leslie What
• "Magic Carpets" in Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful edited by Paula Guran
• "The Emperor's New (and Improved) Clothes" Happily Ever After, edited by John Klima, Night Shade Books
• "Rare Earth" ( with) Felicity Shoulders Is Anybody Out There? edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern, Daw Books, 2010
• "Writing Exercises," The Writer's Guide to Fiction, Kalmbach Publishing, Fall, 2007
• "Tsuris" Logorrhea, edited by John Klima, Bantam Books, May, 2007
• "Post hoc" Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, Small Beer Press, May, 2007
•  "Letter to the Editor of the Tamarack Tidings" Talking Back, edited by L. Timmel DuChamp, Aqueduct Press, 2006
• "Nirvana High" by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What, The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2, 2005
• "The Mutable Borders of Love" Best New Horror # 16, edited by Stephen Jones, 2005
• "Nature Mort" Polyphony 5, Wheatland Press, 2005
• "Why a Duck?" Zeppelin Adventure Stories, Wheatland Press, 2004
• "How I Got Away" The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road, Carroll & Graf, 2003
• "Threesome" Imagination Fully Dilated, Fairwood Press and ElectricStory.com, 2003
• "Is That Hard Science, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?" Witpunk: Stories with Attitude, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003
• "Blind Date With the Invisible Man" Polyphony 1, Wheatland Press, 2003
• "All My Children" Women Writing SF as Men, DAW, 2003
• "Grease and Sex at The King Of Chicken" Journal of Pulse Pounding Narratives #1, 2003
• "Finger Talk" Mota: Truth, Edited by John Reed, Tripletree Publications, 2003
• "My Hermit" Mota: Courage, Edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Tripletree Publications, 2004
• "The Cost of Doing Business" Nebula Awards Showcase, Harcourt Brace, 2001
• "Going Vampire" Hours of Darkness, Scorpius Digital Publishing, 2001
• "Those Taunted Lips" Historical Hauntings, DAW, 2001
• "The Sacred Society" EXTREMES, Lone Wolf Publications, 2000
• "The WereSlut of Avenue A" Bending The Landscape 3, Overlook Press, May, 2001
• "Portraits of the Shadows in The Flames" Beyond Lament- Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, Northwestern University Press, 1998
• "Acts of Sacrifice" Health and Healing in the Jewish Tradition-Writings from the Bible to Today, Jewish Publication Society, 1999
• "Cheese Bake Redux" Serve It Forth, Warner Aspect, 1996
• "Perils of Cleavage" Body Talk, Hysteria Publications, 1997
• "Those Who Know" The Fortune Teller, DAW, 1997
• "Beside The Well" Bending The Landscape 1, Overlook Press, 2004
• "How To Feed Your Inner Troll" Isaac Asimov's Christmas, Ace Books, 1997
• "Love, Art, Hell, & The Prom" Prom Night, DAW, 1999
• "Chain Reaction" The Unmade Bed: 20th Century Erotica, Masquerade, 1998
• "Santa's Night Out" One Evening A Year, compiled by Stephen Stanley and Daniel Conan Young, WordShop Publishing, 2000
• "Chain of Command" by Leslie What and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, The Chick's In The Mail, Baen Books, October, 2000
• "The Happy Homewrecker" 100 Crafty Little Cat Crimes, Barnes and Noble Books, 2000
• "King For A Day" Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams, IFD Publishing, 1999
• "Designated Hater" Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams IFD Publishing, 1999
• "Beware The Truancy Officer" 365 Scary Stories, Barnes and Noble Books, 1998
• "Silk Words" Pacifica 96, Winner Lane Literary Guild Fiction Award
• "How to Mummify Your Used Sanitary Pads" Hysteria, 1994, reprinted in Body Talk, Hysteria Publications, 1997
• "Letter To The Editor" Buried Treasures, WordShop Publishing, 1996
• "Those Who Know" The Fortune Teller, edited by Lawrence Schimel and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, 1997
• "The Emperor's New (and Improved) Clothes" Twice Upon a Time, edited by Denise Little, DAW Books, 1999

BOOKS

• "Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging," Serving House Books, May 2012
• "Crazy Love," Wordcraft of Oregon, July 2008
• "Olympic Games," Tachyon Publications, 2004
• "The Sweet and Sour Tongue," Wildside, 2002

AWARDS AND HONORS

• "Aging in Place" nominated for Pushcart Prize
• "Crazy Love" finalist for Oregon Book Award, Ken Kesey Award for fiction, judged by Robert Olmstead
• "Crazy Love" winner in the Short Story category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• "Living Waters" finalist Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Contest, judged by Craig Lesley
• "Finger Talk" nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• "Storytime" finalist Story magazine, Naked Fiction Contest, 1996
• "Brave Fireman" play winner Second Annual Pregnant Chad New Plays Festival, NY
• "Brave Fireman" finalist from Writer's Digest Short Short Story Contest, 2000
• "The Cost of Doing Business" Nebula Award for short fiction, 1999
• "Why I Wash the Dead" Oregon Writers Colony award for nonfiction judged by Brian Doyle, 2000
• "Silk Words" Lane Literary Guild Fiction award judged by Floyd Skloot, 1996
•  Bending the Landscape anthology awarded Lambda and World Fantasy Award, 1997
• "Death Penalty" Fountain Award honorable mention, 2003
• "Nirvana High" (co-authored with Eileen Gunn) Nebula Award nominee, 2006
• "Nirvana High" (co-authored with Eileen Gunn) shortlisted for Tiptree Award, 2006 (now known as the Otherwise Award ).
  
• Slogan chosen for PDX promotion, 2005
• Stories have received numerous Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Science Fiction and The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror

BROADCAST AND MISCELLANEOUS

• "Tilt" Asimov's Podcast read by the author when she had a really bad cold
  
• Radio Commentaries on 89.7 KLCC public radio, 89.7 on "The Northwest Passage"
• Comedy writer and performer for "Radio Slice" broadcast on KLCC
• "The Ralph Schifberg Story," script by Leslie What, broadcast on PBS Independent Eye
• Contributing writer to Eugene Weekly
• Freelance writer and documentary scriptwriter for Work-for-hire book-length publications on aging
• Work-for-hire web site writer for an Internet game promoting a major feature film that cannot be named
  
• Ghost edited book of poetry by at-risk youth
• "Say What" a humor column, "Vital Signs" medical column published in Eugene Weekly
•  Feature articles and essays published in Biblio, Jewish Review, INtown Magazine
• "Brave Fireman" Play staged by Stormy Weather Players in Cornwall, NY

SELECTED ARTICLES ON WRITING

• "New Scientific Evidence Suggests: Writer's Block Is All In Your Head!" SFWA Bulletin, Fall, 2003 
• "Copycats" The SFWA Bulletin, Winter, 2006
  
• "Is This the End?" The Writer March, 2006
  
• "Sensei Wonder" Nebula Awards 2004, Penguin Putnam, May, 2004
  
• "Transforming Life into Fiction" The Writer, November, 2004
  
• "Writing for Theme Anthologies" The Writer, July, 2002
  
• "Literary Foreplay" Speculations, April, 1998
  
• "The Business of Wonder: Selling Speculative Fiction," The Writer's Handbook, 1999-2001
  
• "Revising Your Story," Speculations, 1998
  

CRITICAL REVIEWS

• "My Funny Holocaust: Humor in Holocaust Narrative," MFA analytical essay, 2005, published in Midstream, March/April, 2008
  
• "Literary Translation: The Art of Remaining Invisible," Eugene Weekly
• "Reduced Shakespeare Company," Eugene Weekly
• "Stories From a Broken Heart: A Traveling Jewish Theatre" Eugene Weekly
• "Boot Camp for Comedians: The Second City" Eugene Weekly
• "Two Classics of Satirical Speculation: Carmen Dog and The Start and The End of it All, Strange Horizons , reprinted in Phantom Drift 3
• "Drawn and Quartered - 'Winter Quarters' by Howard Waldrop" NYRSF, June, 2001 January 6, 1994
• "The Genre That Dares Not Say Its Name" Phantom Drift II, Valuable Estrangements

WORKSHOPS, CLASSES, LECTURES

• Instructor Oregon Writing Festival 2013
• WILCS Writer-in-Schools, winter 2010
• "It Wasn't Funny at the Time: A Class on Finding Humor When and Where You Least Expect It" SOCC, February 14, 2009
• "Writing Flash Fiction," UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Winter, 2009, Spring 2010, Winter, 2011
• "Introduction to Fiction Writing," UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Summer, 2007, Winter, 2008
• "Writing the Slipstream Story," UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Winter 2007 and Summer 2011
• "What's so Bad About Feeling Good?" Writers on the Edge, Newport, Oregon September, 2006
• Expository Writing: "Maladies and Marvels," Pacific University, Spring Term, 2006
• Writer-in-Residence, MSU, Clarion 2005, July 11- 22, 2005
• Presenter, Reading in the Rain, Eugene, with Cai Emmons and Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004
• "The Physics of Comedy," Oregon Writers Colony, 2004
• Workshop Leader, Alpha Teen Writers, Pittsburg, July, 2004
• Freelance Writing Instructor, LCC Adult Education, September, 2002-2004
• Presenter, Willamette Writers Conference, 2003- 2004
• Panelist & Presenter, Baltimore Writers Conference, November, 2002
• Workshop Leader, Oregon Writers Colony Fall Workshop, 1999
• Presenter, South Coast Writer's Conference, 2001, 2003
• Presenter, Willamette Writers "Turning Life into Narrative," January, 2002
• Presenter, Write on the Sound Conference, Everett Washington, Fall, 2001
• Workshop Leader, Tacoma Writers Conference, May, 2002
• Writer-in-Residence, MSU, Clarion, June, 2002
• Writing Teacher for Young Writers Association, 1999-2001
• Panelist Lane Regional Arts Conference, "Arts and Communities," 2001
• Panelist & Presenter, PNWA conference, 1999-2001

SELECTED PUBLIC READINGS

• Oregon Jewish Museum & Center For Holocaust Education https://www.ojmche.org/events/jewish-voices-2020/Portland, Oregon
  Writers at the Edge, Newport, Oregon
• First Wednesday at Blackbird Wine&Atomic Cheese, Portland Oregon
• Multnomah Public Library, Portland, Oregon
• Wordstock, Portland, Oregon
• Annie Blooms, Portland, Oregon
• Pacific University with Joe Millar, Forest Grove, Oregon
• University of Washington Bookstore, Seattle, Washington
• Barnes and Noble, Eugene, Oregon
• Barnes and Noble, East Lansing, Michigan
• The Curious Book Shop, East Lansing, Michigan
• Oregon Union Hotel with Molly Gloss, Kelly Link, Bette Husted, Union, Oregon
• Windfall Reading Series, Eugene, Oregon
• Avid Reader, Davis, California
• Borderlands Books, San Francisco, California
• Barnes and Noble, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Powell's Books, Beaverton, Oregon
• Shelton McMurphy House, Eugene, Oregon
  

NOT TO MENTION...

• IMDb listing Voice-over work, listed writer for short film "Finger Talk"
• Writing Residency Centrum, June 13-20, 2010
• Fiction Editor "Phantom Drift: New Fabulism" 2011-2014
• Nonfiction Co-Editor "Winter Tales II: Women and the Art of Aging," Serving House Books, 2012
• MFA in Fiction Pacific University, 2006
• Senior Nonfiction Editor "Silk Road" literary review, 2006-2008 https://secure.touchnet.com/C22700_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=40
• Secretary Board of Directors, The Clarion Foundation, The Clarion Workshop UCSD, 2005-2010
• Board of Directors Young Writers Association, 2001-2003
• Introduction by Leslie What for "Time Travelers, Ghosts, and Other Visitors" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, 2003
• Romances and classic tell-alls like "I Lived Next Door to a Crack House" published in Modern Romances and True Love

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