Leslie Ferguson has just finished her first book-length work, When I Was Her Daughter: A Memoir of Disorder, about one family’s struggle with mental illness, and of which an excerpt has been published in San Diego Writers’ Ink’s A Year in Ink, Volume 9. She earned her MA in English Literature and MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. In San Diego, California, she currently teaches English, practices yoga, and lives happily with one husband and two cats.