Leigh Hazelbaker is a writer drawn to the places where private lives collide with larger cultural forces. With an M.A. in Journalism from The Ohio State University, she brings a journalist’s eye for detail and a dramatist’s instinct for emotional truth to stories about women confronting stigma, silence, identity, and self-discovery.
Her debut screenplay, Love, Choice & Consequence, transforms her own deeply personal journey into a story that feels both timeless and urgently contemporary. The screenplay is the first installment of a planned trilogy, allowing Leigh to explore its characters, choices, and consequences across a larger and more ambitious narrative canvas. Her follow-up, The Miracle of My Life: Burden to Blessing, ventures into even more unexpected territory, exploring the collision of shamanism, motherhood, and suburban life. The screenplay is accompanied by an album of original music, extending its story beyond the page.
A mother of four and currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Screenwriting at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Leigh writes from the intersection of lived experience, spiritual inquiry, and cinematic imagination. Her work gives voice to experiences too often hidden, turning the deeply personal into stories with the power to resonate universally.
