My Stories

Reading has always been a love of mine, but it wasn’t until an accident that I sat down and wrote my first novel. Since then, I have devoted myself to writing. Being outside is always an inspiration to me, and I find myself building the worlds and “meeting” the characters in my stories while on long walks or working in my garden. Over the years, I’ve had several of my short stories and poems accepted to literary journals and anthologies. Most of my stories are available on my website, www.leahbaileyauthor.com.

Leah Bailey is a real estate agent and creative marketing consultant in the Nashville, Tennessee area. Her days are spent exploring houses, creating marketing plans, and crafting stories. Leah’s short story “A Killer in the Family” is included in the upcoming Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical anthology, and she placed first in the Southern Writers Magazine 2016 Short Story Contest and was a Top Ten Finalist in the Southern Writers Magazine 2017 National Short Story Contest. She also won the Fall 2015, Fall 2016, and Spring 2017 Collage Creative Expression Award for prose while completing a Master of Science in Media and Communication as well as an honorable mention in the poetry category in the 2019 Chattanooga Writers’ Guild Spring Writing Contest. Leah is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Middle Tennessee Authors Circle.