Li Patron is a writer from San Jose, CA. They are a 2024 Lambda Literary Fellow in nonfiction. Her essays, book reviews, and poems have appeared in LitHub, Entropy, the Weird Sister Collection, Archive408, Silicon Valley Metro, and more. She has co-organized several projects that aim to capture historical, cultural, and political information in and around their hometown and California more broadly. Examples include a literary magazine by and for San Jose authors and a living community archive collecting oral histories, essays, sound clips, and more. 

Follow Me
​Instagram: @anneshirley4u 
Letterboxd: @anneshirley4u
Email: lesliepatron at gmail dot com

Education
Brown University, MFA
San Francisco State University, BA
DeAnza Community College, General Ed
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Press / Interviews
Leslie Patron: Capturing the Stories of a Changing San Jose / Valley of the Heart's Resistance, 4 August 2018
Inside San Jose's Zine Scene / KQED Arts, 25 April 2017
New Online Journal Amplifies Voices from the "Wasteland" / metroactive, 16 March 2016

Photo by @ltkphotography.