I write flash fiction – small complete stories that have appeared in the London Literary Project, Turbine, Flash Fiction World, Blackmail Press and Flash Frontier. I also have a series of flash stories on my YouTube channel.

I love stories with a rush of life – ordinary life just as it is; magical. Favourite authors include Lucia Berlin, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Dermot Healy and Katherine Mansfield.

Other loves are opera and beer.

I’ve also written novels and short stories which have featured in various places from Takahe to The School Journal and Radio New Zealand. Two books were shortlisted for the Reed Fiction Award. I won the Lilian Ida Smith Award in 2009 and gained a Master of Creative Writing the following year. See my Slideshare presentation “Literary Benefits of Linguistic and Cultural Hybridity” for an overview.

Leanne