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lesley.crewe [at] seaside [dot] ns [dot] ca
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Lesley grew up in Montreal. After graduating from Concordia University with a degree in English and Education, she and hubby settled in Homeville, Cape Breton and raised a family. From 2000-2005, Lesley was a features writer and columnist (Home Fires) for The Cape Bretoner Magazine, and from 2005-2009, a columnist (Lesley's Letters) with the on-line magazine, Cahoots. In 2005 her first novel, Relative Happiness was published by Vagrant Press, the new fiction imprint launched by Vagrant Press. It was short-listed for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. From 2006-2009 she also published Shoot Me, Ava Comes Home and Hit & Mrs. Her fifth novel Her Mother's Daughter will be published in September 2010. She has also finished the first and second draft of the movie screenplay for Relative Happiness.
Lesley loves working with local children thanks to the Writers in the Schools program, has taught writing workshops and is available for presentations at conferences, seminars and book clubs. There is nothing she loves more than a good book. Well, maybe chocolate.
- Her Mother's Daughter. Vagrant Press, 2010. ISBN 1-978-1-55109-774-9.
- Hit & Mrs. Vagrant Press, 2009. ISBN 1-55109-725-1.
- Ava Comes Home. Vagrant Press, 2008. ISBN 1-55109-676-6
- Shoot Me. Vagrant Press, 2006. ISBN 1-55109-588-2
- Relative Happiness. Vagrant Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55109-549-1; 2008 ISBN 978-1-55109-696-4
- Cahoots Magazine, Winter 2005 - Fall 2009
- The Cape Bretoner Magazine, Vol.8 #5 Fall 2000 - Vol.13 #3 Summer 2005
"We give her our highest kudo: we couldn't put the book down." - Mary Jane Copps, Aloft
