Leslie Anne Perry, PhD, was born in New York, and currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina with her husband of 60+ years. A classroom teacher in two school districts in Missouri for seven years, and a remedial reading teacher in Mississippi for six years, she is a professor emerita in the Clemmer College of Education at East Tennessee State University – where she taught children's literature and language arts for 20 years.
She is the author or co-author of four traditionally published books: Teaching the Reading Teachers (1983) & Teaching Basic Skills in Reading (1985), published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher, and books published in 1987 and 1990 by companies which were then divisions of Simon & Schuster. She also co-authored two traditionally published tests: Slosson Test of Reading Readiness (1991) & Slosson Phonics and Structural Analysis Test (2004), published by Slosson Educational Publications. Between 1977 and 2010, she had 68 articles published in 58 different journals and magazines. Since 2014, she has independently published 57 mostly short books, including 31 poetry books – all currently available on Amazon.