Awards:

Finalist:  Foreward Indie Book Award in Memoir

Interview: 

"An Improvisatory Approach to a Memoir about an Improvised Life"  November 9, 2017 .   

 https://lindajoy.audioacrobat.com/download/Leslie-Lawrence.mp3Tune in live or listen anytime

Readings/Workshop/Discussion:

If you are interested in organizing a school, community or book group event,

contact leslie.lawrence50@gmail.com

Recent Publications:

“Consolation for the Grounded Traveler”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/11/lifestyle/consolation-grounded-traveler/

“Piece of My Heart,” anthologized in IDOL TALK, Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives.

"Harder, Better: Debuting Late in Life"

 https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_notebook_view/281

"After Melina," a short story about parenthood

http://www.literarymama.com/…/arc…/2017/05/after-melina.html

"If Trump Won't Give Us Inauguration Poetry, Let Us Read Whitman."

http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/01/19/donald-trump-inauguration-poetry-leslie-lawrence