

CultMTL: Top 10 Living Author
Maybe it was my mother's Bingo club, or maybe I just baked bread for enough people over the years, but it has all culminated in being...
Jul 14, 2020


I've been podcasted
The exceedingly curious and gallant John Faithful Hamer brought me into the studio for his unbelievably wide-ranging podcast, Likeville....
Jan 10, 2020


Smashed
Montreal Writes, a local literary journal, has published a selection of my photographs. You can see the collection here.
Dec 11, 2018


Heard the buzz
Montreal writer Toula Drimonis posted about my book on Instagram. It was beyond thrilling. I don't know her personally, but she's got a...
Dec 9, 2018


Review: "a bittersweet story of barriers and restrictions"
This was in the Globe and Mail today. Not accessible if you don't have a paid account - I subscribed just to see this lol. It's part of a...
Nov 14, 2018


Review: "A five star debut"
This review is from The Miramichi Reader, a great site that is quickly growing to be a player on the Canadian literary scene. Montrealer...
Nov 13, 2018


Winter, the Waiter, Water
This story was recently published in the final edition of Danforth Review . Helmed by Michael Bryson for the past 20 years or so, it was...
Sep 5, 2018


Review: "care and sensitivity"
This review by Piali Roy is from the June issue of Quill & Quire. Set in the late 1980s around the time of the first Palestinian...
Jun 12, 2018


All that effort for the very last ditch
I wrote a guest blog post for Gail Anderson-Dargatz (here), who helped me work through the last drafting of The Philistine. Her input and...
Apr 9, 2018


Review: "Lyrical but keen-eyed"
Montreal Review of Books, by Danielle Barkley Early in Leila Marshy’s novel The Philistine, the protagonist, Nadia, abruptly declines to...
Mar 24, 2018


Q&A: "It's like being a singer-songwriter opening for the Beatles."
Q&A with Linda Leith at Salon. Linda Leith: You’ve been working in the literary milieu here in Montreal for many years. Tell me a bit...
Mar 21, 2018
Review: "Superior writer of fiction"
Ottawa Review of Books, by Ian Thomas Shaw Leila Marshy's The Philistine is a rich portrayal of two young women's passionate love affair...
Mar 4, 2018


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Jan 24, 2018


The Philistine happened
I wrote a novel and said novel is being published. It will be out in the Spring 2018. This is an event in my life that is so massive, so...
Nov 17, 2017