Leslie What

Leslie What (born Leslie Nelson, 1955) is a writer of fantasy and literary fiction and nonfiction. She began publishing in 1992 with a story for Asimov's Science Fiction. In 1999 she won the Nebula Award for The Cost of Doing Business, published in Amazing Stories. Her story collaboration with Eileen Gunn, "Nirvana High" was nominated for the 2005 Nebula Award for novelette. She has published more than 60 short stories, and her work has appeared in Parabola, Lilith Magazine, The Clackamas Review, Sci Fiction, Witpunk, Bending the Landscape, The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road and other anthologies and magazines.