Leslie A. Rasmussen is the award-winning author of the novel After Happily Ever After and her new novel, Stories We Cannot Tell, is published on July 11. She 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 obtained 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 Maria Shriver, and spoken on panels discussing empowering women in midlife and other women’s issues. Leslie is a member of the Writers Guild of America, as well as Women in Film and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association.
