The Unmothers named one of the New York Times Best Horror of the year
A weird writer, living next to a cemetery with her dogs and roomba
Leslie J. Anderson is a speculative poetry and fiction writer whose writing has appeared globally. Her writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and Apex, to name a few. Her debut novel, The Unmothers, won the Ohio Art Council's Individual Excellence Award in Fiction and was named as one of New York Times top books of 2024.
Her collection of poetry, An Inheritance of Stone, was released from Alliteration Ink and was nominated for an Elgin award. Poems from it have won 2nd place in the Asimov’s Reader’s Awards, and were nominated for Pushcart and Rhysling award.
Leslie has a Creative Writing MA from Ohio University and currently works as a marketing and communications manager for a financial consulting firm. She lives in Ohio in a small, white house beside a cemetery, with three good dogs and a Roomba.
Honored to accept a 2024 Individual Excellence Award in Fiction from the Ohio Arts Council. The committee reviewed a selection from my upcoming novel, The Unmothers (Quirk 2024). I'm so excited to send this book out into the world.
The book trailer for my horror novel The Unmothers. “The truth is…Raeford harbors a secret far more sinister than I could have imagined.” 🐎
THE UNMOTHERS is out on August 6! Preorder now and see why Library Journal called it “[a] triumph of folk horror that will gratify lovers of Midsommar and A Handmaid’s Tale.”
Some of My Work
Uncanny “The Exquisite Banality of Space”
8 Poems “The Most Original Sin”
Pseudopod "The Only Child"