AUTHOR

In addition to Scarlett: Slavery’s Enduring Legacy in an American Family, Leslie Stainton is the author of Lorca: A Dream of Life, a biography of Federico García Lorca, which received the Society of Midland Authors Award for Biography, and Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts, a history-memoir of one of America’s oldest and most haunted theaters.

Her essays have appeared in The Sun, The American Scholar, River Teeth, The Southern Humanities Review, Broad Street, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others. A two-time Fulbright recipient and a Prague Summer Writers Program fellow, she has taught creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan Residential College and has served on the boards of both the Slave Dwelling Project and Coming to the Table.

Stainton holds a BA in drama from Franklin and Marshall College and an MFA in dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, Steven Whiting.