About Leigh Hazelbaker

Leigh Hazelbaker holds a M.A. in Journalism from The Ohio State University and has spent her career crafting narratives rooted in emotional truth and social relevance. A mother of four, she draws from lived experience to tell stories of women confronting stigma, silence, and self-discovery.

Her debut screenplay, Love, Choice & Consequence, channels her personal journey into a story both timeless and urgent. Her follow-up, The Miracle of My Life: Burden to Blessing, explores the collision of shamanism, motherhood, and suburban life — and is paired with a companion album of original music.

Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Screenwriting at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Leigh continues to merge the mystical, the cinematic, and the deeply human in her work.

Healing a generation

Like her fictional protagonist, Hazelbaker’s suburban shackles were only broken following a wake-up call of near tragedy. The Miracle of My Life: Burden to Blessing is the second of a trilogy of screenplays that bridge the seen and the unseen worlds to uncover the root cause of a fractured family. She is now a passionate advocate for harnessing family crisis as an opportunity for inter-generational healing and improving relationships bound by the wounds of the past.

In the language of the sacred arts, this is Hazelbaker’s medicine.