Apryl Leaf was born in Ashcroft, B.C. and raised in Falkland, B.C. She has worked as a journalist in small towns on both the north and south coasts of B.C. Leaf also worked for the Vancouver weekly, Terminal City writing political features leading up to and during the 2005 B.C. provincial election, and for the news section until the paper's last issue in October of 2005. Her first book of poetry, Grass Widow, was published by the company for which she was working as a freelance editor.

BOOKS:

Grass Widow. (Libros Libertad, 2010). 978-1-926763-04-0 : $17.00.

[BCBW 2010]