Leslie has written poetry and stories since childhood. She spent most of her 33 year career in education integrating writing and the arts through writer’s workshops, enrichment programs, and in a divisional leadership role.  

 

In 2023, as part of the Soujourners Collective, she contributed to a collaborative chapter in an education text, Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis. She has also contributed the story The Goddess Cup to Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces, which won the Canadian Book Club Award in the category of Anthology.

 

She is currently working on a novel of historical fiction based on her grandfather’s WWI records, his experiences with the 27th City of Winnipeg Battalion and the fiancée he left behind.

 

Leslie lives with her partner, son, and charismatic orange tabby by the Winnipeg River on Treaty One Territory. She co-chairs a non-profit, HERO’S Alliance, and is a founding and current member of the Lac du Bonnet Community Garden.

 

Provoked by the real and imagined, Leslie grips fast to the idea that stories make us better.