Joan Leegant

Joan Leegant is a fiction writer and teacher: Formerly a lawyer, she started writing fiction at age 40. She published her first book, a story collection, at 53. Her stories and personal essays appear in numerous literary journals and anthologies; a piece about her time at Radcliffe and relationship with ambition called “The Cliffie Notes” appears in the anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition. Joan has taught writing at Harvard, Oklahoma State, Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle—where she was also the writer-in-residence at Hugo House—and Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv, where for six years she was a visiting writer and where many of her stories are set.

Published fiction: Wherever You Go: A Novel; An Hour in Paradise: Stories(winner of the PEN/New England Book Award, the Wallant Award, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick).

www.joanleegant.com