Leslie McCaddon loves writing about families, grief and injustice. She has written pieces for Time magazine, Scary Mommy, Her View From Home, and other national publications. She is a grateful alumna of The Community of Writers where she workshopped a novel she is writing based on her great-grandparents early marriage: In 1926 Los Angeles, where justice gleams in gold badges and corruption festers behind them, Lieutenant Ross McKenna clings to the law—until loss ignites an obsession to have a child, drawing him and his new bride into the city’s underworld, where every act of love exacts a price.

Leslie is also chipping away at a memoir about her love affair with her late husband whom she lost in 2012 to military suicide.

Leslie recently moved to Central Florida with her second husband and their four dogs. Their seven kids live and work all over the rest of the country. If she isn’t writing, she is probably at EPCOT, to dog park, or binge watching anything by Taylor Sheridan.