Lesley-Anne Bourne

Lesley-Anne Bourne grew up in North Bay, Ontario. She received her Hons. B.A. in English and Creative Writing at York University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and has been a participant several times in the Writing Program at The Banff Centre for the Arts. She is the author of three books of poetry, The Story of Pears (1990), Skinny Girls (1993), and Field Day (1996), and a novel, The Bubble Star (1998). Her writing has appeared in various anthologies, including Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets and Coastlines: the Poetry of Atlantic Canada. Her awards include the Air Canada Award, administered by the Canadian Authors’ Association, for a writer under thirty with outstanding promise; the Bliss Carman Poetry Award; and the PEI Milton Acorn Poetry Award. She has been a creative writing instructor for the Maritime Writers' Workshop at the University of New Brunswick and Artsperience at Canadore College in North Bay. She teaches Creative Writing and University 100 (First-year Experience) at the University of Prince Edward Island.