Leslie Starr O'Hara

Leslie Starr O'Hara was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in the auspicious year of 1982, and grew up in the nearby town of Franklinton (which was less a town than a pleasant continuum of tobacco fields). Starr spent a few years adapting to her new environment before launching her writing career. Her first creative endeavor was a rhyming poem entitled "Dazees and Daffadills".

At Catholic middle school, she once got suspended for one week for spitting on the gym teacher's leg. (She swears to this day it was an accident.) At some point, feeling pressured by society's mores, she made the mistake of attending high school, but she quickly recovered her senses and withdrew forthwith.

She wrote her first science fiction novel, a piece of drivel about a prison colony on the dark side of the moon. Providentially, the manuscript was misplaced during a move from slum to squat, and was never found.

For quite awhile, Starr's life was all punk rock and Mountain Dew and interstate highways diminishing into crimson sunsets. Once she got bored with all of that, she promptly met her soulmate, Eric, while driving down I-40. They moved to Asheville, NC and fought like feral cats for two years, and then lived briefly in Maitland, FL, where their beautiful daughter, Ravensara was born. Fleeing from the hot pea soup that is Florida's climate, they made their way back to North Carolina and somewhere along the way Starr and Eric began to get along swimmingly.

After a long hiatus, Starr turned her attention back to writing in 2010, producing the award-winning book of political satire, "The Doublespeak Dictionary: Your Guide to the Euphemisms, Dysphemisms and Other Linguistic Contrivances of the State". Since then, she has been focusing on speculative fiction of the short variety.