Leslie A. Rasmussen was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. She went on to write television comedies for Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey, as well as The Wild Thornberrys and Sweet Valley High. After leaving the business to raise her boys, she attained a master's degree in nutrition and ran her own business for ten years. Recently, she's written over twenty essays for Huffington Post and spoken on panels discussing female empowerment. Leslie is a member of the Writers Guild of America, as well as Women In Film and the Women's Fiction Writers Association. After Happily Ever After is Leslie's debut novel and has won over fifteen awards, and her second novel, The Stories We Cannot Tell recently came out and has already won four awards, and Leslie has been interviewed about it on NPR and XM radio. When Leslie isn't writing, she loves to workout, read, and visit friends. Leslie lives in Southern California and is married and has two sons.
