ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, POETRY/PROSE, HYBRID
Leslie writes about motherhood, ancestry, art, photography, place, memory, mental illness, grief, houses/homes, architecture and design. She drives a deep interest in place and how that shapes us, as well as the interstitial connection of family, dysfunction, and the symmetry and parallels of nature.
BOOKS
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ANTHOLOGY
“The Mothers,” for Pact Press’ Fall 2024 anthology, Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction.
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ESSAYS
ESSAYS
Time is a Thief: Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, Spring 2025, print-only.
Leave a Light on: Endings & Transitions. About Write, Off-Campus Writer’s Workshop, July 2, 2024.
Point of Entry: Writing Workshops in the Treehouse. The Smart Set, August 25, 2022.
The Emotional Weight of Space: Symmetry in Chaos, Levitate Magazine, spring 2022.
Making Space: Cicadas & My Mother, ANMLY, April 2022.
The Midwessay: Fragmented Thoughts on Being a Missouri Girl in ‘the north,’ Essay Daily, May 9, 2022.
“Saying Good-bye to Childhood One Book at a Time,” Literary Mama
“Navigating Choppy Waters,” Moms Don’t Have Time to Write: Travel
“Fourteen,“ Mutha Magazine
“Children, Caution,” Cleaver Magazine. Issue 24.
“Phantom Tears.” Ruminate: The Waking.
“Material,“ Pithead Chapel. Vol. 7, Issue 5.
“My Mother’s House,” Semicolon Literary Journal.
Pretentious Backside. Common Ground Review, Vol. 19, Issue 2. Visit website
“Is Writing a Memoir Automatically Therapeutic?” A Craft Essay on Writing about Mental Illness. Cleaver Magazine.
“My Mother is Crazy.” Manifest-Station.
“Sorting.” The Nervous Breakdown.
“Material That Matters,” Brave Voices Literary Magazine, No. 4. [Print only. Reprinted here]
POETRY
Prose Poetry: “Clothes on the Line,” May 2023. Backbone Mountain Review
Poetry: Trundle & History of Present Illness. Neologism Poetry Journal, vol. 71 April 2023
Poetry: “Crevasse” Ballast Literary Journal, April 2023 and in dialogue with Luke Johnson.
Poetry: “Collapse” Empyrean Literary Journal, March 2023.
The Rural Hours (#37)The Visual Verse Anthology, March 2022.
Suite of Poetry: “My Mother’s Madness.” Coffin Bell Journal, Vol. 3. No. 3.
HYBRID
Hybrid: “Ampersand & Ephemera” in DASH Literary Journal, May 2023 (print only)
Model Home: A Study Under Compression, a photo essay in miniature, On the Seawall, April 2023. Hybrid: “Ampersand & Ephemera” in DASH Literary Journal, May 2023 (print only)
A review-in-diagram featuring Your Hearts, Your Scars (Bellevue Literary Press, January 2023) by Adina Talve-Goodman, edited by Hanna Tinti and Sarika Talve-Goodman, DIAGRAM, 2023.
“Answers to Queries,” a hybrid piece about an genealogy mystery. ELJ Editions/Scissors & Spackle, Fall 2022
CONVERSATIONS WITH AUTHORS
Review-in-conversation with Muriel Murch, author of HARVESTING HISTORY WHILE FARMING THE FLATS (Sybilline Digital First, March 2025), about land, community, an old farmhouse, and even Hollywood. Hippocampus Magazine, October 2025.
An interview with Peter Mendelsund, author of EXHIBITIONIST: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings (Catapult, June 2025), about art, seeing after a depression, mental health, tortured legacy. TW: suicide. Hippocampus Magazine, September 2025.
A conversation with Jill Bialosky, author of THE END IS THE BEGINNING: A Personal History of My Mother (Washington Square Press/Atria, May 6 2025), about reverse chronology, poetry, imagined memoirs. Hippocampus Magazine, May 2025.
An interview with Lidia Yuknavitch, author of READING THE WAVES: A Memoir (Riverhead, February 2025), by the author of THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, about fluidity, Virginia Woolf, the ocean, memory, death, art, and so much more. Hippocampus Magazine, April 2025.
A dialogue-in-review with Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of THE DEEPEST LAKE: A Novel (Soho Press, May 2024) about the sometimes traumatic writing workshops, how there’s no one to support and guide the writer working in memoir, writing a thriller, and so much more. Fugue Review, June 2024.
A conversation with Barrie Miskin, author of HELL GATE BRIDGE: A Memoir (Woodhall Press, June 2024) about the broken mental health system, her troubling and mysterious mental health symptoms during pregnancy, in Hippocampus Magazine, June 2024.
An interview with Susannah Kennedy, author of READING JANE: A Memoir (Sibylline Press, September 2023) in Hippocampus Magazine, February 2024.
A conversation with Susan Kyo Ito, author of I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE (Mad Creek Books, November 2023) in Hippocampus Magazine, January, 2024
A dialogue-in-review with Jami Nakumura Lin, author of THE NIGHT PARADE: A Speculative Memoir (Mariner/HarperCollins, November 7 2023) in Hippocampus Magazine, December 2023
A conversation with Meg Kissinger, author of WHILE YOU WERE OUT: An Intimate Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence (Celadon Books, September 2023) in Hippocampus Magazine, November 2023.
A Conversation with Jasmine Brown, author of TWICE AS HARD (Beacon Press, Feb 2023) and Cassandra Jackson, author of THE WRECK: A Daughter’s Memoir of Becoming a Mother (Viking, May 2023) for Hippocampus Magazine
A Dialogue-in-Review with Priscilla Gilman, author of THE CRITIC’S DAUGHTER (W.W. Norton, Feb 2023), for North American Review.
An interview with Alice Carriere, author of EVERYTHING/NOTHING/SOMEONE: A Memoir (S&G, August 29) in Hippocampus Magazine, September 11 2023
The Flicker That Connects All Life (Penguin Poets, April 4 2023), LiteraryHub, April 2023
A conversation with Tanya Frank, author of ZIG-ZAG BOY: A Memoir of Motherhood & Madness (Viking, Feb 2023), Hippocampus Magazine, spring 2023.
A review-in-dialogue with Nicole McCarthy, author of A SUMMONING (Heavy Feather, Review, 2022), CRAFT Literary, Winter 2023.
A conversation with Gayle Brandeis, author of DRAWING BREATH: Essays on Writing, the Body, & Loss (Overcup Press, Feb 2023), Hippocampus Magazine, spring 2023.
A Conversation with Juliet Patterson about her memoir, Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide (Milkweed Editions, September 2022), Hippocampus Magazine, November/December 2022
A conversation with Kathryn Gahl, author of The Yellow Toothbrush: A Memoir of Trauma and Mercy (Two Shrews Press, 2022), touching on aspects of maternal mental health, abandonment, filicide, and more, MER, November 2022.
A review-in-conversation with Sarah Fawn Montgomery, about place, displacement, feeling haunted, and more in her essay collection, Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press, Nov 2022), Hippocampus Magazine, November 2022.
A Conversation with Erin Keane, EIC of Salon on her journalistic memoir, Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me, exploring forensics, films, fashion, and so much more in her complicated family dynamics (Belt Publishing, September 2022), Autofocus, November 2022.
A dialogue-in-review with Su Cho about her debut collection, The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets, October 2022), The Cincinnati Review, Fall 2022
A conversation with Sheila O’Connor: Elegantly Exploring the Nonlinear about The Evidence of V: A Novel in Facts, Fragments, and Fictions (Rose Metal Press, 2019), Fractured Literary, October 2022
An essay-in-review: Artifacts, Essays, and Exploring a Non-Binary Genre featuring Kristine Langley Mahler’s “Curing Season: Artifacts” (University of West Virginia Press, October 2022), Brevity Magazine
In Conversation with Lauren Acampora: Constructive Friction, featuring The Hundred Waters (Grove/Atlantic, August 2022), The Millions, October 2022.
In Conversation with Carla Zaccagnini, author/artist of CUENTOS de CUENTAS (K.Verlag/Amant, spring 2022), The Millions, August 1, 2022.
In Conversation with Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions (Viking, August 9 2022), Hippocampus Magazine.
In Conversation with Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of THE EVENING HERO: I write to Find Out (Simon & Schuster, May 2022), The Millions, May 19, 2022.
In Conversation with Maud Newton, author of ANCESTOR TROUBLE: A Reckoning and Reconciliation (Random House, March 29, 2022), Hippocampus Magazine, May 2022.
In Conversation with Kim Adrian, author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, The Florida Review, spring 2022.
In conversation with Mary Laura Philpott, author of BOMB SHELTER: A Memoir in Essays (Atria, April 2022) Hippocampus Magazine, March 2022.
In conversation with Siri Hustvedt, author of MOTHERS, FATHERS, & OTHERS (Simon & Schuster, December 2021), The Rumpus, early spring 2022.
In conversation with Dr. Galit Atlas, author of EMOTIONAL INHERITANCE (Little, Brown Spark, January 25 2022), Hippocampus Magazine
“A Conversation with Donald Antrim, author of ONE FRIDAY IN APRIL: A Story of Suicide & Survival, Hippocampus Magazine.
“A Conversation with Laraine Herring, author of A CONSTELLATION OF GHOSTS: A Speculative Memoir,” Hippocampus Magazine.
“Local Woman Writing: A Walking Tour with Mary Kubica,“ Women Fiction Writers
REVIEWS
THE LAB: Experiments in Writing Across Genre (W.W. Norton, July 2025). Matthew Davison and Alice LaPlante, Hippocampus Magazine, September 2025.
PHOTGRAPHY
Photography: Wild Roof Journal, Spring-Summer 2023
Photography: Western Michigan Review, Fall 2023
Model Home: A Study Under Compression, a photo essay in miniature, On the Seawall, April 2023. Hybrid: “Ampersand & Ephemera” in DASH Literary Journal, May 2023 (print only)
PROSE/FLASH
“Pink” in Pink Plastic Houses, February 2023.
“The House” in Heimat Review, January 2023.
“Interiors,” prose. SEPIA Journal, Issue 6. October/November 2022
Breaking Ground, the tiny journal, April 2022.
Nickels on Eyes, Flash Frog Literary
“Baby Jars,” Agapanthus Collective
“Thresholds,” A Door = Jar Literary Magazine
Snapshots: The Old Farmhouse. The Family Narrative Project.
MISC.
This lovely piece by Susannah Kennedy, author of READING JANE: A Daughter’s Memoir, features growing up with difficult mothers…and well, that’s something I identify with. Check out her piece in Substack and my interview with Susannah in Hippocampus Magazine.
Reader’s Response. Poets & Writers Magazine January/February 2023 [Print Only]
“A Reading List of Memoirs on Motherhood & Mental Illness,” The Mighty.
“Reading to Write: Leslie Lindsay on the Long Journey to her Memoir,” Read Her Like an Open Book.
“Disinheriting Madness & Other Traits,” Runs in the Family|Psychology Today.
Reader’s Response. Poets & Writers Magazine September/October 2019 [Print Only].
Leslie A. Lindsay 