Woodard, Leslie
Woodard, Leslie
PERSONAL:
Education: Columbia University, B.A.; New York University, M.A.
CAREER:
Columbia University, New York, NY, assistant professor, director of undergraduate creative writing, and director of the summer creative writing program for high school students.
AWARDS, HONORS:
New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship, 2002
WRITINGS:
The Silver Crescent (stories), Gorgeous Notions Press (New York, NY), 2006.
Contributor to books, including Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience, edited by Doris Jean Austin and Martin Simmons, Penguin (New York, NY), 1996; and Men We Cherish: African American Women Praise the Men in their Lives, edited by Brooke Stephens, Anchor Books (New York, NY), 1997.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Black Issues Book Review, January-February, 2007, Denise M. Doig, review of The Silver Crescent.
Publishers Weekly, March 27, 2006, review of The Silver Crescent, p. 54.