Alex Leslie

Alex Leslie is a Queer writer of English and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage born on unceded Musqueam territory in Vancouver. She's the author of two short story collections, We All Need to Eat, a finalist for the 2019 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the 2020 Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction and Kobzar Award, and People Who Disappear, a finalist for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. She is also the author of two prose poetry collections, Vancouver for Beginners, shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and winner of the 2020 Lohn Foundation Prize for Poetry, and The things I heard about you, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Alex’s writing has been featured in the Journey Prize Anthology, The Best of Canadian Poetry in English, and in a special issue of Granta spotlighting Canadian writing, co-edited by Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux. She has received a CBC Literary Award, a Gold National Magazine Award, and the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.

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