Leslie Clark has been teaching writing for over thirty years, 
and has been writing and publishing short fiction and poetry for 
more than twenty years. Currently, she is full-time English faculty 
at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona.  Leslie coordinates a writer's 
group in Sierra Vista, AZ, and founded and is currently co-chair of 
the Cochise Community Creative Writing Celebration, an annual writers' 
conference that takes place each March in Sierra Vista. She established 
 Voices on the Wind online poetry journal almost five years ago. 
Leslie lives at the southern end of the Huachuca Mountains, in the 
Palominas area of Arizona, with her husband, Gary, a sweet German 
Shepherd dog, and a beautiful dilute tortie cat.