Award-Winning Author

Leah Bailey

Leah Bailey is a creative marketing consultant and a farmer specializing in growing cut flowers in the Middle Tennessee area. As host of the Cozy Ink Podcast and an author, Leah’s days are spent crafting stories. Leah is the author of several novels, including the books in the Sugar Maple Romance series written under the pen name Belle Bailey, the Faire Pendant series written under the pen name Leah Price, and two mysteries written under the pen name Price McNaughton. Leah’s short story “A Killer in the Family” is included in the Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical anthology. She placed first in the Southern Writers Magazine 2016 Short Story Contest and was a Top Ten Finalist in the Southern Writers Magazine 2017 National Short Story Contest. She also won the Fall 2015, Fall 2016, and Spring 2017 Collage Creative Expression Award for prose while completing a Master of Science in Media and Communication as well as an honorable mention in the poetry category in the 2019 Chattanooga Writers’ Guild Spring Writing Contest. Leah is a member of the Dangerous Pen Society and the Middle Tennessee Authors Circle.