Leslie Dormen was born in Shaker Heights, OH, the daughter of Max Hanford and Lee Zentner. She is a graduate of Miami University.
Lesley Dormen has contributed to many well-known national magazines and is the author of several humorous self-help books. Her first book of fiction is The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories, a collection of linked tales featuring protagonist Grace Hanford, a fifty-year-old married, childless, and recently orphaned woman who recalls her life in these eight stories. She has also written The Grown-Up Girls Guide to Boys, How to Survive Your Boyfriend’s Divorce, and The Best Place to be: A Novel in Stories.. She is also a contributor to periodicals, including Redbook, Atlantic Monthly, Glimmer Train, Open City, Five Points, and Ploughshares.
Dormen is an instructor at the Writer’s Studio in New York City.
Portrait by Marion Ettlinger
