Leslie Brody Ph.D.

• Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• M.A., University of Connecticut
• B.A., San Francisco State University

Previous Teaching Experience

• University of Connecticut

Previous Relevant Work Experience

• Immediately after High school became an underground press reporter- traveled around Europe and lived in London, sampling various hippie occupations

• Returned to California

• Worked as a librarian in the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science

• Became involved with The One-Act Theatre Company of San Francisco as a Resident Playwright

• Moved to Minneapolis to continue work in theatre on a fellowship at the Playwrights Center

• Worked at the Hungary Mind Bookstore, as the store publicist

• Joined The Hungary Mind Review as columnist and contributing editor-writing many reviews

• Wrote reviews for various national publications while plays and opera librettos produced around the country

• Moved to CT to begin grad school and became Staff Book Reviewer for Elle magazine

• "Red Star Sister" was awarded the "1999 PEN Center USA West prize for Creative Nonfiction"

• "National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship" for short fiction

• "McKnight Award in Screenwriting"

• "Two Jerome Fellowships in Playwrighting"

• "Dayton Hudson Grant for literary criticism"

• "Sundance Fellow in Arts Journalism"

• "International Writing Fellowships: Camargo Foundation, in France and at Hawthornden in Scotland"

• "Writer in residence or fellow at McDowell Colony, Centrum, Yaddo, Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Arts"

Presentations

• Octagon Theatre, University of Bolton, England, 2007

• Camargo Foundation, 2005

• Speakout Reading, April 2003

• Collegial Conversation, October 2002

• Book Reception with Ralph Angel and Pat Geary, May 2002

• Los Angeles Times Book Fair, "Inside Out: The Art of the Memoir," April 2002

• Selected panelist at Board of Trustees Retreat, November 2001, "Art of the Aftermath of 9/11"

• Caltech reading and discussion of "Red Star Sister," November 2001

• Panelist and Moderator, Campus Conversation, October 2001

• Associated Writing Program Conference Panelist, Film and the Literary Arts, April 2001

• Reading, University of California, Riverside, Writer's Week, February 2001

• Sundance Writer's Reading, Park City, Utah, January 2001

• Reading, Northlight Books, December 1998

• Reading, Frugal Frigate, Redlands, March 1999

• Reading, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, April 1999

• Reading, University of Connecticut-invited by English dept.

• National Public Radio, All Things Considered. Sept 1998

• Blue Moon Bookstore, San Diego, Sept. 1998

• Midnight Special Bookstore, Los Angeles, Sept. 1998

• Much Ado about Books, Redlands, September 1998

• Diesel Books, Oakland, December 1998

• Book Passage, Marin, December 1998

• Management information systems

• Human population and urban studies

• Geographic information systems (GIS)

• Renewable energy