Leanne Dunic Author & Editor

Poet Leanne Dunic is the Canadian born daughter of a Chinese mother and Croatian father. She has published fiction, poetry and non-fiction in magazines and anthologies in Asia, North America, and the UK, as well as chapbooks by Leaf Press, Onzieme, and Bitterzoet. She recently won the Alice Munro Short Story Contest and was shortlisted for the 2015 Asian-Canadian Emerging Writer Award. Leanne is a mentor at SFU's Southbank Writing Program, and was the 2014 literary curator for Vancouver's Powell Street Festival, a Japanese-Canadian cultural celebration. A truly multi-disciplinary artist, she is the singer/guitarist for the band Luck Commander, where she finds another outlet for her writing skills. Her visual art has been displayed in galleries in Japan, Singapore, and Canada.