Leigh Medeiros wrote the original stage play Bad Character: The Death of Sarah Maria Cornell, currently being produced by the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society.

She is the author of The 1-Minute Writer: 396 Microprompts to Spark Creativity and Recharge Your Writing (Simon & Schuster, 2019) and was the Climate Screenwriter columnist at Script magazine.

Leigh is a two-time Screenwriting Merit Fellow through the State of Rhode Island. Her screenplays have placed in numerous competitions including the Nicholl, Project Greenlight, and PAGE. Short narrative and documentary films she produced and directed have played at regional film festivals.

She founded the Linden Place Writers’ Residency and co-directed the Hollywood Climate Summit’s Writing Climate Pitchfest, a global competition that connected screenwriters with climate-related stories to Hollywood executives. Her creative projects have been featured in The Boston Globe, Outside, SPIN, Food Network magazine, Uppercase, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, and more. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and rescued pets.