Leslie Moïse

Leslie Moïse's began writing at age nine, right after she read Little Women for the first of several thousand times. "I identified with Jo, and knew I was a writer like her." Less than a decade later, the British magazine Light Horse published her autobiographical story, "An American at Windmill Hill." Moise's memoir, Love is the Thread, about knitting, friendship, loss and love, is published by Pearlsong Press, as is her historical novel, Judith, a 2015 award-winning Finalist in the International Book Awards. In the summer of 2015 R. C. Linnell Publishing published her poetry collection, Linked by the Joy of Words, about her thirty year long friendship with another writer.

Dr. Moise's stories, articles, essays and book reviews have been published in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette focused on 19 C. British Literature, folklore and creative writing. Moise lives on a bluff above the Ohio River, and is at work on Under the Pomegranate Tree, the prequel to Judith.