About the Author

Leela Marie Hidier was born and raised in London, UK, and now lives in a three-generational household in Maine. Changes in the Weather is her debut novel, which she wrote as part of The Telling Room’s Young Emerging Authors program. Changes in the Weather has received a Scholastic Gold Key Award, and was a Silver Finalist for Hindi’s Libraries international 2022 Females of Fiction Award. An excerpt from it can also be found in the Telling Room anthology Echoes from the Basement. Leela Marie’s essay “Weaving Home” was published in Amjambo Africa newspaper and essay “World of Words” in Maine Women Magazine. Her personal narrative “Photographic Memories” was published in the anthology Printed in My Soul. Leela enjoys playing the piano and mandolin, reading historical fiction, discovering new swimming holes and beaches, baking without recipes, and, of course, writing. Leela hopes her words will humanize the issues we are facing—and help us face them together.