Leigh Stein

Leigh Stein's debut novel, The Fallback Plan, is now available. Leigh is a former New Yorker staffer and frequent contributor to its “Book Bench” blog. She lives in Brooklyn, where she works in children’s publishing and teaches musical theater to elementary school students.


Articles by Leigh Stein

The Comedienne

One of the strange things about having your first book come out is that you think you’ve written one thing, ...

The Ghost

My fascination with New Mexico began in 2007, when I moved to Albuquerque sight unseen to write my first novel,  ...

The Diarist

Before I’d settled on acting or writing, my greatest aspiration was simply to “Be Anne Frank,” and when I was twelve, ...