Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard
College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has also worked
as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and
an office temp in Manhattan. She is currently a PhD candidate at
Yale University, where she is writing a dissertation on poverty
and degradation in twentieth-century American writing. She is twenty-eight years old.
Contact: leslie@lesliejamison.com
Literary Representation: Publicity:
Jin Auh Jill Siegel
The Wylie Agency Free Press
jauh@wylieagency.com jill.siegel@simonandschuster.com
