photo credit: Annabel Simons

Jennifer DeLeskie (she/her) lives in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) with her husband and three children. A lawyer and member of the Barreau du Québec, she has, in past lives, worked in Chiapas with a collective of organic coffee farmers, facilitated at the Cuernavaca Centre for Intercultural Dialog on Development, and participated in archaeological fieldwork in Nunavut, Belize, France, and on the Saugeen Peninsula. Her work has appeared in Prairie Fire,The Globe and Mail, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Colored Lens, and elsewhere, and has been recognized by the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award, the Fish Short Story Prize, and as Prairie Fire’s nominee for the Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award. She edits Quist, the Quebec Writers’ Federation youth literary journal. Her stories often grapple with witness, complicity, and transformation.

Her debut novel, Everclear, a YA near-future wilderness adventure, will be released by Flame Arrow Publishing in summer 2026.