Leslie Maslow attended the Sewanee Writers Conference as a Walter E. Dakin fellow in Playwriting in 1999. In 2001, she received a Dan Dodt fellowship to the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Awards include an honorable mention the Kernodle Playwriting Competition and the Phoebe Short Fiction Contest. Her story Mum won the 2009 RRohife Trophy and was published in Open City Magazine. Her essay on Pär Lagerkvist's 1925 novella The Difficult Journey: Guest of Reality II appeared in the summer 2010 issue of Tin House.
