Alex Leslie

Alex Leslie is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers from the Writers Trust of Canada in 2015.[1]

Alex Leslie
BornVancouver
Occupationshort story writer
NationalityCanadian
Period2000s-present
Notable worksPeople Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You
Website
alexleslie.wordpress.com

Leslie's third book, a collection of short stories, We All Need to Eat, was published by BookThug in Fall 2018.

Leslie's debut short story collection People Who Disappear was published in 2012,[2] and was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction and the ReLit Award for Short Stories in 2013.[1] Leslie's prose poetry collection, The Things I Heard About You, was published in 2014[3] and was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award.[1] Leslie's collection, Vancouver for Beginners, is forthcoming from BookThug.

Leslie also won a National Magazine Award for "Pre-History", a piece published by the literary magazine Prairie Fire,[4] and a CBC Literary Award for the short story "Preservation".[5]

Leslie's writing has also appeared in the anthologies Journey Prize 2016 (Penguin Random House), Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014 (Tightrope), Best Canadian Stories 2009 (Oberon), 09: Coming Attractions (Oberon), The Enpipe Line and Friend. Follow. Text. #stories from living online, and in the magazine Plenitude.

Leslie's heritage is Ashkenazi Jewish (Eastern Ukraine) and British.

References
  1. "Alex Leslie wins 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire, June 8, 2015.
  2. Review: People Who Disappear. Quill & Quire, May 2012.
  3. "The things Alex Leslie’s poetry can do". Daily Xtra, January 12, 2015.
  4. "Off the Page, with Alex Leslie". National Magazine Awards, January 26, 2012.
  5. "B.C. writers win CBC literary prizes". The Province, February 22, 2008.


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