Leslie Kirk Campbell’s upcoming debut fiction collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Sarabande Books, February 2022) won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her award-winning stories appeared in Arts & Letters, Briar Cliff Review, Southern Indiana Review, and The Thomas Wolfe Review. She is the author of Journey into Motherhood: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery (Riverhead, 1996) and received writing fellowships at Playa and Ucross. She teaches at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco, Calif.