About the author
Leslie Gura is a lifelong writer and editor, who, as a journalist for newspapers in California, Connecticut and North Carolina, specialized in narrative storytelling and criminal investigations. Along the way, Gura won numerous awards, including the inaugural Taylor Family Fairness Award from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University for his Northeast magazine story about a Yale instructor wrongfully accused of murder by New Haven police.
After leaving journalism, Gura spent eight years in marketing and communications, as well as continuing to do freelance writing and editing. During that time also went back to school, earning his master’s degree from Wake Forest University in clinical mental health counseling. Since beginning practice in 2019, Gura has made trauma a specialty. Throughout his professional lives, he has used narrative techniques, in writing to tell and in therapy to discern stories.
Unwrapping: A Novel about Generational Trauma is Gura’s debut novel. His follow-up, Mosaics of Grief: A Novel About Confronting Loss, is planned for publication in 2026.