Leah Horlick is the 2022-2023 Canadian Writer-in-Residence with the Calgary Distnguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary. A writer and poet, her most recent collection, "Moldovan Hotel," was released by Brick Books in spring 2021. Her debut book of poetry, "Riot Lung" (Thistledown Press, 2012), was shortlisted for a 2013 ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her second collection, "For Your Own Good" (Caitlin Press, 2015), was named a 2016 Stonewall Honour Book by the American Library Association. She is also the author of "wreckoning," a chapbook produced with Alison Roth Cooley and JackPine Press. In 2016, Leah was awarded the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers. In 2018, her piece "You Are My Hiding Place" was named Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year and shortlisted for inclusion in the 44th Pushcart Prize. She and her dear friend Estlin McPhee ran REVERB, a queer and anti-oppressive reading series, from 2012-2017. After nearly thirteen years away on Unceded Coast Salish Territories, and Treaty Seven Territory & Region 3 of the Métis Nation in Calgary, Leah has happily returned to where she grew up as a settler: Treaty Six Territory & the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
