Leslie is a Chicago native and one-time New Yorker who now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and their extremely needy poodle-terrier mix. A former Us Weekly editor and Hollywood Reporter senior writer, Leslie is a freelance journalist and has recently co-authored two New York Times best-selling memoirs (she’s currently working on her third book). She hopes to one-day pen the next great teen-drama-trilogy-turn-box-office-blockbuster.