Featured Author/ Open Mic with Leslie Neustadt

Featured Author/ Open Mic with Leslie Neustadt

Leslie’s writing and art is illuminated by her Jewish background, commitment to social justice and gender equality, and her experiences as a woman, daughter, wife, mother and cancer patient. Her poems and essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and publications.

Her poems and essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and publications including the anthologies Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women; The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary American Jewish Poetry; 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millenium; Rumors Secrets & Lies: Stories & Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice; Musematrix; Mentor’s Bouquet, and Heels into the Soil: Stories & Poems Resisting the Silence.

Leslie's books, Bearing Fruit: A Poetic Journey, and The Sustenance of Stars are available on her website at https://www.leslieneustadt.com/