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] Leslie's work has won a National Magazine Award, the CBC Literary Award for fiction, the Western Canadian Jewish Book Award and has been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize for fiction (the Ethel Wilson Prize) and the Kobzar Prize for contributions to Ukrainian Canadian culture, as one of the prize's only Jewish nominees.

Leslie's fourth book, a collection of poems, Vancouver for Beginners, was published by BookThug in Fall 2019. 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. Leslie was included in Granta's first Canadian literature feature issue in 2018 and in Best Canadian Stories 2020 (Biblioasis). Leslie's writing has also appeared in the anthologies Journey Prize 2016 (Penguin Random House), Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014 (Tightrope), 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 and English.