1. Leslie What was born on Leslie Joyce Nelson, 1955 and is a Nebula Award-winning writer of speculative, literary fiction and nonfiction with three books and nearly 100 short stories and essays to her credit.
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Leslie What won the Nebula in 1999 for the short story, The Cost of Doing Business, and in 2005, she was a finalist for the Nebula, along with Eileen Gunn, for their co-written novelette, Nirvana High.
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Leslie What was born Leslie Joyce Nelson in 1955 in Los Angeles.
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Leslie What changed his name to Bill Nelson to shield his mother, What's grandmother, from possible reprisals for his desertion.
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Leslie What grew up in Southern California, attending Santa Ana College and earning a certificate in Vocational Nursing.
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Leslie What attended California State University Fullerton and received her MFA in Writing from Pacific University in 2006.
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Leslie What worked as a licensed vocational nurse and later volunteered with the Chevra kadisha.
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Leslie What then moved to Oregon to be near science fiction authors and Clarion leaders Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm.
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Leslie What's first published story, "King for a Day," came out in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1992.
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Leslie What has since published more than 70 speculative fiction stories, as well as a number of poems and essays, and her work has appeared in such places as Parabola, Witpunk, Bending the Landscape, Interfictions, The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road, Sci Fiction, Best New Horror and other anthologies and magazines.
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Leslie What was the co-editor with R A Rycraft of Winter Tales: Women Write About Aging from Serving House Books.
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Leslie What was the first fiction editor for Phantom Drift: New Fabulism.
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Leslie What's work has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Russian, Hungarian, and Klingon.