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Leonard Nash |
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Nash was born in Miami Beach in 1965 and grew up in Coral Gate, a
post-war Miami subdivision around the corner from downtown Coral
Gables. His mother has been a surgical nurse, textbook illustrator, fine artist,
and art teacher. His
late father was a jeweler, sculptor, and real estate investor. This
probably explains Leonard's propensity for multiple endeavors: writing;
teaching; editorial consulting; forensic editing; online bookselling;
real estate management, investments, and sales;
and mortgage brokering.
Leonard graduated from Coral Gables High School in 1983, earned an AA from the University of Florida in 1986, a BA in English from Florida International University (FIU) in 1987, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from FIU in 1996. He taught English for Dade County Public Schools for five years (1988-1993), and spent another five years teaching creative writing, literature, technical writing, and expository writing at FIU (1994-1999). He became a writing and editing consultant in 1993, and since 2000, that has been Leonard's primary endeavor. He has copy edited numerous regional glossy magazines, edited and ghostwritten numerous fiction and nonfiction books, and has been a regular contributor to Miami Magazine (the official alumni publication of the University of Miami). Leonard Nash is the author of You Can't Get There from Here and Other Stories (Kitsune Books, 2007), which won a 2007 Florida Book Award Silver Medal for fiction. His prose and poetry have appeared in Gulf Stream Magazine, South Dakota Review, Seattle Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Potpourri, the food anthology Irrepressible Appetites (Rock Press, 2002), and elsewhere. When he's not working, Leonard enjoys tennis, hiking, reading, and long road trips, all of which inspire his fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He lives near the beach in Hollywood, Florida with a belligerent (and fractious) tortoiseshell cat named Murphy. |