LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS is a multi-award winning writer, editor, and international speaker who lives on two islands in Alaska. She has written/edited 14 nonfiction books of memoir and essays on a variety of subjects, including memoir writing, the spirituality of food, forgiveness, wilderness, discipleship and parenting. Her books have been translated into 10 languages. Leslie has traveled all over the world, both as a seeker and as a speaker, including treks across the Sahara, through Asia, Europe and Central America. She has taught in numerous countries including Mongolia, South Africa, France, and Slovakia. In 2013, she began the Harvester Island Writers' Workshop, a week long writing workshop and retreat at a beautiful wilderness island in Alaska. Guests have included Ann Voskamp, Philip Yancey, Scot McKnight, Bret Lott, Luci Shaw and others. Summers, she also leads Your Story Matters Retreats and Psalm Retreats in Kodiak. Leslie has written for many publications including The Atlantic, Orion, Books and Culture, Beliefnet, Christianity Today earning her a number of EPA awards. She holds three graduate degrees and currently teaches through retreats as well as through live online classes, including her Memoir Masterclass, with more than 1000 writers from around the world. Leslie and her husband Duncan have 6 children and 5 grandsons. They continue to commercial salmon fish together on their wilderness island in Alaska.
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