Leslie Greentree’s new short story collection, Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For (September 2022, University of Calgary Press) was shortlisted for a 2023 High Plains Book Award. An earlier short story collection, A Minor Planet for You, won the 2007 Howard O’Hagan Prize for Short Fiction; she is also the author of two poetry books: go-go dancing for Elvis, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and guys named Bill. Leslie has won CBC literary competitions for short fiction and poetry, and the Sarah Selecky 2013 Little Bird short fiction competition. Leslie co-wrote the play Oral Fixations with her life partner Blaine Newton; it was professionally produced in 2014 by Ignition Theatre. Her essay, “Tom Petty Just Isn't There for You: Riffs on Waiting” appears in Waiting: An Anthology of Essays (University of Alberta Press, 2018). Her essay, Pink Smock Stories, was shortlisted for a Writers Guild of Alberta award and the Humber Creative Nonfiction award.