Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish-Canadian poet living in Kelowna, British Columbia, where she writes and hosts Feeny Wood, a woodland retreat. In 2025, Lesley-Anne received an MA in Poetry from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, fulfilling a dream to return to her birth city of Belfast.

Lesley-Anne’s work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee Lit Mag., The Honest Ulsterman, The Waxed Lemon, EVENT Magazine, Image Journal, The Antigonish Review, and Contemporary Verse 2, among other literary publications.

Her first collection, Mute Swan, was published by The St. Thomas Poetry Series in 2021. Learn more here. The video below includes readings by the author.