A diary keeper, a journalism major, a public relations executive, now a children’s author—Lindsay Leslie has always operated in a world of written words. She likes to bring her unique outlook on life, quirky humor, and play with words to the page in picture books. Lindsay is the award-winning author of Gus Hearts the Bus (A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection), So You Want to Build a Library, Dusk Explorers (an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner, Bank Street Best Book of 2021 with Outstanding Merit, and Amazon Editors’ Pick), Nova the Star Eater, and This Book Is Spineless. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, sci-fi/fantasy novelist Ryan Leslie, two teenagers, and two fur-beasts (a.k.a. dogs).
Some of Lindsay’s loves:
- Reading graphic novels
- Anything about space
- Playing boards games with my family
- Teaching her kids how to drive (Yep, I’m that weirdo.)
- Potty humor (Guilty!)
- Tex-Mex food, especially queso
- Making elaborate dinners with my kiddos
- Working out
- Making people laugh
- Gardening
- Sharp pencils
- The ocean
- Reading aloud and getting into the characters’ voices
- The color blue
- Baking homemade pies (She once owned a pie company!) and pretzels
- Her family’s two rescue doggos: Phife & Cleo
- Telling stories
