About

Lesley Krueger is an award-winning Canadian novelist and filmmaker. Her new novel, Far Creek Road, came out this fall from ECW Press. Sheila Murray, author of Finding Edward, calls it “masterful.”

Lesley’s previous novel, Time Squared, was released in the fall of 2021, and was named one of the year’s most notable books by the 49th Shelf.

Says writer and 49th Shelf editor Kerry Clare, “I’ll dive right in and tell you that the novel, Time Squared by Lesley Krueger, which I’ve loved more than I’ve loved than any book I’ve read in ages, could be billed as Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life meets Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, if we wanted to underline just how badly you really ought to read it. And oh, you really do.”

Time Squared  is available from ECW Press in Canada and the U.S. and online around the world as a paperback, e-book and audiobook.

ECW also published Lesley’s previous novel, Mad Richard, in 2017. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls it “a remarkable piece of historical fiction” and “a terrific read.” The Globe & Mail says it is “alive with wit and rebellion.”

She is the author of seven other books, including three previous novels, two short story collections, a travel memoir and a children’s book. As well, she is the author of a short biography, Contender: Triumph, Tragedy and Canadian Baseball Player Harry Fisher, and a collection of semi-fictional blogs she released as an e-book, Daily Life.

As a filmmaker, Lesley has worked as a screenwriter, script doctor, story editor and co-producer on sixteen produced films over the past eighteen years, ranging from micro-budget shorts to studio features. As a teacher, she was the Writer Mentor at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto for more than a decade. She previously taught creative writing at what was then known as Ryerson University, now Toronto Metropolitan University.

For six years, Lesley and her family lived in Latin America, spending three years in Mexico City and three in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During her time in Latin America, Lesley became fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has also lived in London, England, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lesley was born in Vancouver and grew up on the city’s North Shore, where Far Creek Road is set. She now lives in Toronto with her husband, Paul Knox.

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