A Sixfold Path for Expanding CanLit's Reach | Episode 2 - Leesa Dean
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LEESA DEAN was born in Northern British Columbia and raised in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. She spent a decade in Montreal where she studied Creative Writing at Concordia University before moving to Toronto. She also lived on random farms and beaches before eventually settling in Krestova, BC, where she still lives on an acreage with her artist husband Matty Kakes and daughter Scarlett. She is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program and teaches English and Creative Writing at Selkirk College.


Her writing has been nominated for literary awards such as the Trillium and ReLit Awards, the Irving Layton Award, and the Litpop Award. She is co-founder of the Black Bear Review, a Kootenay-based literary journal, and was Interviews Editor for The Humber Literary Review from 2014-2016.


Her critically acclaimed short story collection, Waiting for the Cyclone, was published by Brindle & Glass in October 2016. Her poetry chapbook The Desert of Itabira was published by above/ground press in January 2020, and her novella in verse, Manuelzinho, is forthcoming, hopefully soon. She is currently working hard on A Few Red Flags, a novel-in-stories about rebel moms, set in her home region of the West Kootenay.


The author is represented by Samantha Haywood of Transatlantic Agency.
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MICHAEL MIROLLA is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. Michael describes his fiction as a mix of magic realism, surrealism, speculative fiction and meta-fiction.


Michael Mirolla's latest literary awards are the 2020 Reader Views Award for his novella The Last News Vendor (Quattro Books, 2019) and the 2016 Bressani Literary Prize for his short story collection Lessons in Relationship Dyads (Red Hen Press, 2015).


In 2010, with business partner Connie McParland, Michael took over the reins at Guernica Editions, one of Canada's thriving independent presses.


Born in Italy and raised in Montreal, Michael now makes his home in Hamilton, Ontario.


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'Changing the Face of Canadian Literature' is available for purchase on our website
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Michael Mirolla's newest collection of short fiction is available from Exile Editions. You can purchase Paradise Island and Other Galaxies from their website
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