Curriculum Vitae
Publications
2022
THE REPUBLIC OF HOME - The Blasted Tree - Forthcoming Fall ‘22
“The Lemon Tree” - Brick Magazine - Issue 109
2021
THRENODY FOR A DROWNED GIRL - Moon Jelly House - Spring ‘21
“the amatorculist” - The Fiddlehead - Issue 289
“to the woman with him now” - The Fiddlehead - Issue 289
“afterglow” - The Fiddlehead - Issue 289
“even the knifefish learns to flee” - The Malahat Review - Issue 174
“to outlast an active volcano” - The Malahat Review - Issue 174
“venus” - The Malahat Review - Issue 174
2020
“The Taste of Violence” - For Russell - The New Gallery
“Ode to Diana Taurasi” - The Under Review - Issue 3
“black skin even undersea” - CV2 - Vol. 42 No. 4
“sea market after drowning” - CV2 - Vol. 42 No. 4
“spectacle in the museum of man until 1974” - CV2 - Vol. 42 No. 4
“Something has tried to kill me” - filling Station - Issue 74
“litany on the hangman” - filling Station - Issue 74
“a bloodless liminal amber” - filling Station - Issue 74
“H.B.I.C.” - Plenitude
2019
“full stop near the end of rebirthing” - filling Station - Issue 73
“how to decolonize” - Poetry is Dead - Issue 10
“next time, someone kind” - Homology Lit - Issue 3
“I can’t sleep without watching someone” - Homology Lit - Issue 3
“Geomorphology” - Honey & Lime - Issue 2
2017
“liminal space” - NoD Magazine- Issue 21
Interviews
2021
“With a Level of Respect, Honour, and Dignity: Interview with Leslie Joy Ahenda” - Canthius Magazine
“Emotion and Poetry: Kathy Mok in Conversation with Leslie Joy Ahenda” - The Malahat Review
“TSOW INTERVIEW - Leslie Joy Ahenda” - This Side of West
Education
2020-2022
MFA, Creative Writing, Universtiy of Guelph
2016-2020
BA with distinction, Writing, History Minor, University of Victoria
2013
Grade 10, first class honours, Classical Piano, Conservatory Canada
Residencies
2019
Emerging Writers’ Intensive - Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
2016-2017
Choral Scholar - St. Christopher Singers - Christ Church Cathedral
Readings
2022
Emerging Writers’ Reading Series
2021
The Tartan Turban Secret Reading #30
2020
Speakeasy Reading Series - University of Guelph
Poetry for Black Freedom (Host)
Love & Chocolate Literary Reading - Victoria Public Library
2018
This Side of West Editors’ Reading - Hillside Coffee & Tea
2017
This Side of West Editors’ Reading - Deluge Contemporary Art
2016
This Side of West Editors’ Reading - Deluge Contemporary Art
Awards & Scholarships
2021
Ontario Graduate Scholarship - University of Guelph
2020
Constance Rooke Scholarship - University of Guelph
McClelland & Stewart Scholarship - University of Guelph
Graduate Excellence Entrance Scholarship - University of Guelph
Board of Graduate Research Scholarship - University of Guelph
2019
Millen Undergraduate Scholarship - University of Victoria
2018
Haig-Brown Award for Conservation Writing - University of Victoria
Philip Pickering Award in Poetry - University of Victoria
2017
Melva J. Hanson Scholarship - University of Victoria