Leslie W graduated with an English Literature degree from the National University of Singapore, and was one of six mentees selected for the Mentor Access Project’s Fiction category, an annual programme by the National Arts Council, Singapore, which develops young and emerging writers in Singapore’s four official languages. The Night of Legends was written under the mentorship of prolific local writer, Dave Chua. Two of her short stories were published in an anthology Pulp Toast / Roti Bakar.