Alex Leslie
Alex Leslie | |
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| Born | Vancouver |
| Occupation | short story writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2000s-present |
| Notable works | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You |
| Website | |
| alexleslie | |
Alex Leslie is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers from the Writers Trust of Canada in 2015.[1]
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
- ^ a b c "Alex Leslie wins 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire, June 8, 2015.
- ^ Review: People Who Disappear. Quill & Quire, May 2012.
- ^ "The things Alex Leslie’s poetry can do". Daily Xtra, January 12, 2015.
- ^ "Off the Page, with Alex Leslie". National Magazine Awards, January 26, 2012.
- ^ "B.C. writers win CBC literary prizes". The Province, February 22, 2008.
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