Leah Cypess is an American author of fantasy and science fiction, active in the field since 1995.
She practiced law for close to two years at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City.
Continuing to write in her spare time, she sold her first novel fifteen years later.
[3] Her "Nanny's Day" was nominated for the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
[1] Her work has appeared in various periodicals, webzines and podcasts, including Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Cast of Wonders, Daily SF, Galaxy's Edge, Helix SF, Kaleria, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Odyssey, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Persistent Visions, StarShipSofa, and Strange Horizons, and the anthologies The Mythic Dream, Sword and Sorceress XXIII, Timeshift: Tales of Time, Unidentified Funny Objects, Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013, and Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015.