Shelley A. Leedahl is an established multi-genre writer with strong ties to her home, Saskatchewan, and great enthusiasm for her adopted provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. This prolific-and peripatetic writer currently resides in Wilson Creek, near Sechell on the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver. Presenting and leading writing workshops across Canada and also working as an editor, book reviewer, free-lancer, mentor, and radio advertising copywriter for two Edmonton stations, she has enjoyed several national and international fellowships including in Valparaiso, Spain and at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland. She has thrice been short-listed for the CBC literary awards (poetry.)