13 Facts About Leslie Jamison

Leslie Sierra Jamison was born on June 21,1983 and is an American novelist and essayist.

Leslie Jamison is the author of the 2010 novel The Gin Closet and the 2014 essay collection The Empathy Exams.

Leslie Jamison was born in Washington, DC, and raised in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Leslie Jamison's parents are Joanne Leslie, a nutritionist and former professor of public health, and economist and global health researcher Dean Jamison; she is the niece of clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.

Leslie Jamison's parents divorced when she was 11, after which she lived with her mother.

Leslie Jamison attended Harvard College, where she majored in English and graduated in 2004.

Leslie Jamison was a member of the college literary magazine The Advocate and social club The Signet Society.

Leslie Jamison then attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned an MFA in fiction, and Yale University, where she earned a Ph.

Leslie Jamison's work has been published in Best New American Voices 2008, A Public Space, The New York Review of Books, and Black Warrior Review.

Leslie Jamison is assistant professor and director of the nonfiction concentration in writing.

Leslie Jamison leads a group of Columbia University MFA students in a Creative Writing Workshop at the Marian House, transitional housing for women in recovery.

Leslie Jamison is a supporter of the boycott of Israeli cultural institutions, including publishers and literary festivals.

Leslie Jamison was an original signatory of the manifesto "Refusing Complicity in Israel's Literary Institutions".