Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish-Canadian poet living in Kelowna, British Columbia, where she writes and hosts Feeny Wood, her woodland retreat for creatives and spiritual seekers. In 2025, Lesley-Anne received an MA in Poetry with Distinction from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, fulfilling two dreams–to return and live in her birth city, Belfast, and to commit wholly to her writing.

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.