Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish Canadian poet living in Kelowna, BC, Canada. Lesley-Anne returned to her homeplace Belfast in 2024 to undertake an MA in Poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. She graduated with distinction in 2025.

Lesley-Anne’s second collection is forthcoming from Ronsdale Press in spring 2027. Her first collection, Mute Swan, was published by The St. Thomas Poetry Series in 2021.

At times lyrical or experimental, Lesley-Anne’s poems appear in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee Lit Mag., The Belfast Review, The Honest Ulsterman, The Waxed Lemon, EVENT Magazine, Image Journal, The Antigonish Review, and Contemporary Verse 2, among other literary publications. Lesley-Anne’s work is concerned with identity and the interconnectedness of humanity, ecology, and post-religious spirituality.

Descendant of the Heugenot diaspora*, Irish by geography, Northern Irish by familial line, and Canadian by emigration, residency, and government bestowal, Lesley-Anne currently lives and writes on the traditional unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.

*as described by oral family tradition.