About Leslie Heywood

Leslie Heywood has an MFA from the University of Arizona, and teaches creative writing and cultural and science studies at SUNY-Binghamton, where, with biologist David Sloan Wilson, she is working on developing a program that integrates the sciences and humanities from an evolutionary perspective. A poet and creative non-fiction writer, she is the author of Pretty Good for a Girl, The Proving Grounds, and Natural Selection; the editor of The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism and co-editor, with Jennifer Drake, of Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism; and has also done much academic work on women in sports, and, more recently, research on creativity, environmentalism, and evolutionary biology.