Leslie Bazzett

Biography

Leslie Bazzett is the author of MIA (Scribner, 2026). Her work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, West Branch, and New England Review. She was a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Award and won the NER Award for Emerging Writers.

Photograph of Leslie Bazzett.

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FICTION

Provenance

By Leslie Bazzett ,  Illustration by Helena Pallarés

Certain lives are harder to tell. The mind spans a great distance: the worn shag carpet of his boyhood, where Jimmy would lay reading from the ragged set of plays; college nights playing chess, wrapped in the plaid robe he’d bought in town...

Illustration of man inside car looking out driver's side window.