Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish-Canadian poet living in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. 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 poetics are largely concerned with identity formation, the domestic view, ecological and human interfaces, and resilience after spiritual trauma.

At times lyrical and 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 first collection is Mute Swan, Poems for Maria Queen of the World (The St. Thomas Poetry Series). Her second collection is forthcoming (TBA).