Leslie Connito has been producing oil paintings since 1980. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and attended a semester of study in Paris in 1983 with the Parsons School of Design at the American College. Her work showed there at the fairly prestigious student gallery. She received her first solo show awarded by the Maryland Institute in 1984. After graduation, she studied painting and art history in New York at Hunter College and worked in Manhattan while living and painting in Hoboken NJ. She had several group shows and two solo shows in NYC at the 55 Mercer Gallery. Presently, she is a member of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, the Katonah Museum Artists Association, the Provencetown Artist Association and Museum, and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists.

In 2016, Leslie published three children’s books and two children’s ebooks available at Blurb.com and Amazon and in local book stores and libraries. She is a writer of Murder Mystery dinner parties of which she has written and performed 14.