Leslie Fish

Name:

Leslie Fish

Alias(es):

Type:

writer, filker

Fandoms:

Star Trek, K/S

Communities:

Filk, SCA, Pagan, sci-fi conventions

Other:

URL:

http://lesliefish.com/ & WayBack link to Highlander Fan Fiction

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1 As a Filker
2 As a K/S advocate and writer
3 Gallery
4 External Sources
5 References

Leslie Fish is probably best known for her filksong writing and singing, but she was well represented in early Star Trek zines as well, writing columns for Interstat and other letterzines, writing The Weight Collected (an enormous gen Trek story, originally serialized in Warped Space), and writing early K/S .

As a Filker

She has written hundreds of songs, including Horse Tamer's Daughter; Hope Eyrie, about the Apollo 11 moon landing; and Banned From Argo, about the crew of the starship Enterprise on shore leave. Her songs inspire strong, active emotions--outrage, joy, humor, or determination.

She wrote her first filksong, "Fellowship Going South," in 1963. In 1969, Leslie began writing the filksong, "Hope Eyrie" (a.k.a. "The Eagle Has Landed"), which took six years to complete. Leslie has recorded two albums of space and Star Trek songs with her band, The Dehorn Crew: Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet (1976) and Solar Sailors (1977), along with Carol Shuttleworth, which includes "Banned from Argo". Fish has received three Pegasus Awards and was elected to the Filk Hall of Fame in 1995 as one of the first inductees.

She usually attends filksings with a 12-stringed guitar named "Monster" and a large bottle of something alcoholic with a label that says "Bard Oil," and always has a knife on her, whether you can see it or not.

As a K/S advocate and writer

During the K/S wars in the late '70s-early '80s, Leslie was a passionate supporter of K/S, writing a column in Interstat and sending LoCs to other Trek zines of the time defending fans' rights to write K/S, and even taking to task those who didn't believe that Kirk and Spock were lovers. She wrote some of the first works that crossed the line from gen to slash.^[1] Shelter, (published in Warped Space #20), is one of these stories. Her K/S slash is included in the ksarchive.com, as well as Foresmutters project.^[2] She's also a writer of fantasy in several fandoms, and has collaborated with Mercedes Lackey on several projects, both filk and prose.