Leah McNaughton Lederman is a writer and freelance editor from the Indianapolis area, where she lives with her husband, three kids, three cats, and two dumb dogs. Her poems and short stories have been published in Scout Media’s A Matter of Words, A Contract of Words, Clarendon House’s Fireburst and Cadence, and Indie Author’s Press Issues of Tomorrow: A Sci-fi Anthology. Most recently she published Cafe Macabre: A Collection of Horror Short Stories and Art by Women, which was released by SourcePoint Press. As an editor she has worked in fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and poetry.