About Leslie Teel
Leslie Teel wrote her first YA suspense in third grade because she was jealous of a classmate who had written one first. More recently, she graduated from the Year Six Novel Incubator, where she worked on her second YA suspense novel. Leslie's story "The Featured Guest" was included in the 2017 YA charity anthology 13 Candles: Halloween Tales of Tricks & Transformation. Her other short fiction has appeared in The Blue Lake Review and Amarillo Bay. She currently lives in Watertown, MA with two stripey cats and a non-stripey human. Instagram: @leslie.teel Twitter: @ldorannat
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