LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS is an award-winning author of twelve books, an international speaker and writing teacher, a popular radio guest, and the founder of the Harvester Island Wilderness Workshop. She has been a commercial fisherwoman for four decades, working with her husband and six children in a salmon-fishing operation on their own island off Kodiak Island. In the off-season, Leslie leads leads food retreats and writing workshops from her base in Alaska and throughout the world.