Leslie is a mom-turned-author who lives in Buda, Texas. She and her husband, Brad, have two children. She has been a long distance runner since middle school and following college graduation began running marathons as a hobby. She has since completed fourteen full marathons with plans for more in the future.
Leslie worked in the field of biomedical sciences, receiving her doctorate in 2008 from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston. After earning her degree, she worked as an adjunct professor at Houston Baptist University teaching introduction to microbiology to pre-nursing students.
When their family relocated to the Austin area, she took on the role of being a full time stay at home mom. She began writing poetry during the pandemic and it grew into writing novels, in particular, mystery novels and she has used her knowledge of biomedical sciences in her stories. The main character in her mystery series is a journalist, which is not a common main character for a mystery novel and she has a grandmother based on Leslie’s own grandmother.
