Amy leBlanc

Amy LeBlanc holds a PhD from the University of Calgary where she researched the intersections of haunted house literature, folk gothic narratives, and chronic illness. She is a poet and fiction writer with publications in Room, Arc, The Fiddlehead, Funicular, Canadian Literature, CV2, CMAJ, PRISM International, and the Literary Review of Canada among others. Her second full-length poetry collection, I used to live here, was published with the Porcupine’s Quill in April 2025. She has been a finalist for the ReLit award, the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, the BPAA Trade Fiction Book of the Year Award, and an AMPA Showcase Award in poetry. Amy is a recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, a SSHRC CGS-D award, and the Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal. She is a 2022-2024 Killam Laureate. She is on the Board of Directors at Canthius.