Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish-Canadian poet currently living in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. In 2024, she moved overseas to study poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, and graduated in 2025 with an MA in Poetry with Distinction.
 

Mute Swan, Poems for Maria Queen of the World (The St. Thomas Poetry Series) is Lesley-Anne's first collection. Ronsdale Press is publishing Lesley-Anne’s second collection, forthcoming in Spring 2027.
 

Lesley-Anne’s poetics are largely concerned with identity formation, the domestic view, ecological/human interface, and resilience through spiritual trauma. At times lyrical and experimental, her poems appear in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee Lit Mag, The Honest Ulsterman, Belfast Review, EVENT Magazine, Contemporary Verse-2, The Antigonish Review, Image Journal, Letters Journal (Yale Divinity School), and other periodical publications. 

Lesley-Anne's creative practice includes photography, libretto, and installation art. She values contributing to community building and mentoring. In the past, she facilitated street-level poetry circles, hosted an open studio at a drop-in centre, developed a museum exhibit centering stories of unhoused citizens, and created and curated a small gallery to provide space for marginalized artists to show and sell their work. Lesley-Anne currently hosts Feeny Wood, a woodland retreat for creatives and spiritual seekers.