Born and raised in Regina, Leanne McIntosh she has lived in Nanaimo for more than 30 years. She started writing poetry when she attended her first creative writing classes and has since become a founding member of the Island Women Poets group. Her work has been published in literary periodicals such as The Fiddlehead, Grain, and The Malahat Review. Her first collection of poems is The Sound the Sun Makes (Oolichan, 2003) ISBN 0-88982-218-2 $15.95 It was followed by a chapbook called The Attitude of the Tree: Sixteen Tao Poems (Leap Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9732765-1-7 $10 and Liminal Space (Oolichan, 2005).

BOOKS:

Dark Matter (Leaf 2013) $16.95 978-1-926655-57-4

[BCBW 2013] "Poetry"