Leslie Heywood

Leslie Heywood is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the State University of New York, Binghamton. A lifelong athlete, she is the author of scholarly monographs, essays, memoir, and poetry about women in sport, including Pretty Good for a Girl and, with Shari Dworkin, Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon. She is also the editor of The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism, and, with Jennifer Drake, co-editor of Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism.