Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish Canadian poet living in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. With the desire to explore her Irish origin, 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, the domestic, ecological and human interface, and post-religious spirituality.

At times lyrical, at times 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 published by The St. Thomas Poetry Series in 2021. Her second collection is forthcoming from Ronsdale Press in spring 2027.