Leah Bailly is a fiction writer, scholar and facilitator from Western Canada. She has won honours from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Alberta Literary Awards, Summer Literary Seminars, Grayolf Press, the Banff Centre, Breadloaf, MacDowell and Yadoo. Her writing has nappeared in journals such as CRAFT, The LA Review of Books, PANK, Joyland, Prism International, The Collagist, Cosmonaut's Avenue, subTerrain, Room and on CBC and NPR Radio.

She holds a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Southern California, and an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was Deputy Editor of the literary journalWitness. She also holds a BFA in Writing from the University of Victoria, and has attended residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Banff Centre and Summer Literary Seminars in Russia and Lithuania. Her work has appeared on CBC and NPR radio, as well as the Collagist, Los Angeles Review of Books, Prism International, Room, Joyland, Pank Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Western Canada, she currently teaches writing and literature on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish First Nations of Vancouver, Canada.

Her debut novel, THE FOLLOWING, is published by Jen Sookfong Lee with ECW Press and scheduled to be released in April 2027. It is an urgent and luminous literary thriller following a dangerously famous and volatile wife of a politician as she flees her marriage, examining the roles women are forced into, the inequities between the global north and south, and public scrutiny and surveillance. We cannot wait to read it!