Leah Weiss is a Southern writer born in North Carolina and raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She graduated from Dunbarton College in Washington DC with a degree in music and received an education degree from Kent State University. She worked at many jobs before becoming the Executive Assistant to the Headmaster at Virginia Episcopal School. In June of 2015 she retired from that 24-year career and signed with a New York agent.

Her debut novel IF THE CREEK DON’T RISE was released in August 2017 and has sold over 100,000 copies. It was selected as a Library Reads and an Indie Next and was #5 on the national Indie Picks for winter 2017-2018. It was nominated for the Southern Book Prize and was a 2018 finalist for both the Library of Virginia’s Literary Fiction and People’s Choice Awards. Her second novel, ALL THE LITTLE HOPES, holds traces of her mama’s Carolina life and was released in July 2021.

Leah writes full time and enjoys meeting with book clubs and speaking about the rewards of becoming a bestselling author late in life. When she’s not writing, she loves to travel and hike with her husband Dave, a gentle man, a beekeeper and avid reader.