Amy LeBlanc is a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. She was the Managing Editor at Canthius from 2022-2025. Amy’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know (Gordon Hill Press, 2020) was long listed for the 2021 ReLit Award and selected as a finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Her novella, Unlocking (University of Calgary Press, 2021) was a finalist for the Trade Fiction Book of the Year through the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Homebodies(Great Plains Press, 2023) is a collection of interconnected Gothic short stories. Her next poetry collection, I used to live here, is forthcoming with Porcupine’s Quill in April 2025. Amy’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, CMAJ, Room, Arc, Canadian Literature, and the Literary Review of Canada among others. Amy is a recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and a CGS-D Award for her doctoral research into fictional representations of chronic illness and gothic spaces. Amy is a 2022 Killam Laureate and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.
