The Inscrutable Mr. Elizabeth
Marlene Leach has had fiction and poetry published in Lavanderia: A Collection of Women, Wash and Words; The Absinthe Literary Review; Southern California Review; Funeral Party; Threshold; Lost Worlds; Mouse Tales Press, Askew, and Black Petals.  She has worked as a freelance journalist for over 15 years, served as a Marine, worked as a nurse and her non-fiction has been published in Nvestment Magazine, Get Up and Go, Mature Lifestyles, Naples Daily News, Monadnock Ledger, Nantucket Beacon, Salon.com, Union Leader, and  Ambience Magazine.  She currently lives in Albuquerque, N.M. where she teaches Intro to Novel Writing at UNM Continuing Education. She is a graduate of  NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the Master of Professional Writing Program at University of Southern California.  THE INSCRUTABLE MR. ELIZABETH is her first, but far from her last, novel.