Leslie Hill

Leslie Hill, writer

Leslie Hill taught high school in Toronto for twenty-five years before moving to Scotland to live in the Findhorn Foundation. Back in Canada she landed in Vancouver and obtained a certificate in Creative Writing from Simon Fraser’s The Writers Studio and an MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts in Washington. Her memoir, Dressed for Dancing: My Sojourn in the Findhorn Foundation, was one of ten nominees for the Whistler Independent Book Awards and her essays have been published in Pilgrimage, Shark Reef, What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming A Teacher, Nervous Ghost Press, the Tahoma Literary Review, Braided Way, and the Globe and Mail.

Date Night — Volume 4, Issue 4 - 06/20

Leslie Hill invites us into a vulnerable exploration of the dating world as we watch her share a glass of wine with a neighbour and then dissect the experience through a personal autopsy in Date Night.

Scum — Volume 2, Issue 1

Scum by Leslie Hill recounts a heavy experience of exploitation, exposing the harsh reality of mid-life dating, insecurity, and fear.