Wild About Writing

Lesley Salas has been wild about writing since the age of 6, when she composed a play for her friends on the neighbor's porch. She is a bilingual Cuban American lesbian from the Midwest with two spectacular grown children. She has been in Florida since late 2014.

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After an intense struggle with depression her whole life, Lesley broke free from her self-restrictions and began writing again in her 60s. Like the wild green parrots who surround her, she is a not-quite-tamed transplant thriving in her new environment. She writes about all the in-between places she represents and the advantages of 'otherness.'

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She has been a grant writer, a nonprofit program manager, a proofreader, a social-justice activist, and a translator/interpreter, among other things. Recently she gathered her poetry into her first book, Pray to What Humbles You. Share our wisdom - that's what crones are supposed to do, anyway, right?