Leslie Kirk Campbell

Leslie Kirk Campbell’s debut short story collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Sarabande) won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. Her award-winning stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, Briar Cliff Review, Southern Indiana Review and The Thomas Wolfe Review. She is the author of Journey into Motherhood (Riverhead) and has received fellowships at Playa and Ucross. She teaches at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco in 1991. Her next collection, Free Radicals, is in the making.