Leslie Frazier Whaley has made a career of telling stories that make us react and respond. From her fierce beginnings in the hard-scrabble oilfields of West Texas as the Editor of The Levelland Weekly Tribune, to conquering Madison Avenue by creating award-winning advertising campaigns, speeches and public relations campaigns for clients including: The New York Times, State Farm, and Citibank. Now she is unleashing her wry look at the world in the form of poetry, short stories, and her just-completed novel where she explores a world where headlines, taglines, and pick-up lines can rattle even the most steady career woman in her novel, Empire of the Damned: The Systematic Undoing of Drucilla Dauderman.
Leslie has an undergraduate degree in British and American Literature from Harvard University and a Master’s Degree in Life from the School of Hard Knocks.