Leslie Ferguson started writing poetry in college to deal with troubling emotions and traumatic memories from her childhood. In graduate school, she was more courageous, and wrote scenes from memory, trying to recapture the mood of much of her life with a mentally ill parent. During the day, she taught high schoolers about literature; in the evening, she studied and wrote, eventually amassing more than 200,000 words about her journey from homelessness and foster care to safety and love. Those words, critiqued, edited, and rewritten countless times, have come to shape the memoir she is proud to share with the world.

Leslie writes about love, loss, and the consequences of trauma, emphasizing healing and hope. Currently, she work in the publishing industry, helping others achieve their dreams of putting amazing stories into readers’ hands.

You can find Leslie here on her author website and here on Facebook.