Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison is a highly acclaimed American author and teacher, best known for her books "The Gin Closet" and "The Recovering." She currently works at Columbia University in the MFA program, where she directs the non-fiction concentration and leads the Marian House Project.

Before achieving success as an author, Jamison held a variety of odd jobs, including working as a baker, tutor, inn-keeper, medical actor, and office temp. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at Yale University.

Jamison's work has been featured in numerous leading publications, including Oxford America, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, and a Public Space. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, where she majored in English and received the prestigious Edward Edgar Memorial prize in writing.

Jamison's senior thesis at Harvard focused on the topic of incest in the works of William Shakespeare. She was a classmate of Uzodimna Ewala, who went on to win the Edward Edgar Memorial prize in writing the same year as Jamison and is known for his award-winning novel and feature film "Beasts of No Nation."