Leslie B Neustadt

Leslie B. Neustadt is a retired attorney, poet and collage artist. Author of Bearing Fruit: A Poetic Journey (Spirit Wind Books, 2014), she explores the beauty and power of the natural world, life’s joys and struggles, and a commitment to human and civil rights in her work. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary journals and a number of anthologies, including Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women; The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary American Jewish Poetry; 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millenium; Rumors Secrets & Lies: Stories & Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice; Musematrix; and Heels into the Soil: Stories & Poems Resisting the Silence. She is a board member of the International Women’s Writing Guild and chairs its program committee, producing a popular workshop series for the Guild which she created during the pandemic. She is also a member of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and created an award-winning Community of Jewish Writers reading series in the Capital Region. Leslie lives with her husband, Dr. Gary Kronick, in Niskayuna, New York.