Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish-Canadian poet living in Kelowna, British Columbia, where she hosts Feeny Wood, a woodland retreat for creatives and spiritual seekers. Satisfying a desire to explore her Irish identity, 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 work appears 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 first collection, Mute Swan, Poems for Maria Queen of the World, was published by The St. Thomas Poetry Series in 2021 and launched in Kelowna and Toronto. Learn more here.