Leslie Leyland Fields

Leslie Leyland Fields is a teacher, speaker and the multi-award winning author of 15 books, including Surviving the Island of Grace, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers, and Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing and Living the Truth of Your Life. She's taught writing for more than 30 years, in university classrooms, conferences, living rooms, prisons, churches and online. Her favorite pastime (besides hiking and kayaking) is leading memoir retreats around the country and the world, as well as on an island in Alaska where she and her family live and commercial fish each summer. Additionally, and with great joy, she leads the Memoir Masterclass, a vibrant online community of 1000 writers from around the world.