Who we are

Linda Leith - Founder

Montreal writer and publisher Linda Leith's most recent books are The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life (URP 2021), the literary history Writing in the Time of Nationalism (Signature 2010; translated into French as Écrire au temps du nationalisme, Leméac 2014), and Marrying Hungary (Signature 2010), and she has written essays on writers from Hugh MacLennan to Mavis Gallant, including an introduction to Gallant's play What Is To Be Done? (LLP 2017). Founder and former president and artistic director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, she created Salon .ll. and Linda Leith Publishing | Linda Leith Éditions in 2011 and launched Font magazine in November 2021.

Felicia Mihali - President

Felicia is a writer, literary translator, and publisher with impressive administrative and managerial experience. She studied French, Mandarin and Dutch, and specialized in history and comparative literature at Université de Montréal. Since the publication of her highly acclaimed novel Le Pays du fromage in 2002, she has written seven books in French and three in English, including The Darling of Kandahar (LLP 2012), which was selected by Canada Reads as one of the best books of 2013. Living in Montreal, she writes and translates in three languages.

Shakiya Williams - Publishing Assistant

Shakiya Williams is a writer, editor, and publishing assistant based in Montreal. They hold a BA in English Literature with a minor in Professional Writing from Concordia University. Since joining Linda Leith Publishing, Shakiya has contributed to a variety of projects across the publishing process. Her writing has appeared in The Link, Read Quebec, and The Rover, and they continue to explore creative nonfiction, horror, and speculative storytelling. Shakiya is also an editor at Daedalus Magazine and works on independent editorial and research projects.

Advisory and Editorial Board Members

Elise Moser

Elise Moser is a writer, editor, and anthologist. She wrote What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling (2016), YA novel Lily and Taylor (2013), and novel Because I Have Loved and Hidden It (2009). She was founding Literary Editor for online culture magazine The Rover and has reviewed books for Montreal Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Kirkus Reviews. She has served on several boards including the Quebec Writers’ Federation and PEN Canada. She manages the Atwater Writers Exhibition, co-organizes the Read Quebec Book Fair, and co-founded and co-coordinates the National Juries and Awards Working Group.

Alexander Hackett

Alexander Hackett is a writer and musician from Quebec's Eastern Townships. After earning a BA in literature and philosophy from King's College, Dalhousie and an MA in International Relations from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, he worked as a teacher in Gambia, West Africa and Mexico City. His stories and articles have appeared in The Northwest Review, Hobart, Yolk Literary, The Toronto Star, and La Presse, among other places, and in 2025 he was shortlisted for the Guernica Prize for fiction. He is a regular contributor to the Montreal Review of Books, and since 2018 has written for Concordia's School of Graduate Studies.

Cora Siré

Cora Siré is the Montréal-based author of two novels, two collections of poetry and her latest, Fear the Mirror, a hybrid story/memoir collection. Her novel Behold Things Beautiful was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize. Cora’s stories, essays, and poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines in Canada, the US, Mexico, and Europe. Her work has been translated into French and Spanish. Cora delivers talks on literature at universities and writing workshops for the QWF. She curates a reading series in her local library and appears at festivals and literary events in Montréal and elsewhere.

Julian Gollner

Julian Gollner has worked extensively in Management Consulting, Risk Management and Information Technology, with a degree in Economics from Concordia University. He holds multiple certifications within the IT field, and brings experience both from the corporate and not-for-profit sectors, including Blue Metropolis Foundation. He lives in Vancouver, where he is a Manager at Ernst & Young, as part of its Advisory Services Performance Improvement practice.

Ann Charney

Ann Charney is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and journalist. Her work has been published in the US, Italy, France, Germany, as well as in Canada. She is a member of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Honourary Board of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. She has also been named to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.

Patrick Coleman

Patrick Coleman is Research Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His works include Equivocal City: French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal (McGill-Queen's, 2018). A book in progress focuses on conceptions of the lyric in contemporary anglophone and francophone poetry.

Rivkah Groszman

Rivkah Groszman is an emerging writer based in Montreal. Her work has been featured in Pixie Literary Magazine, Soliloquies Anthology, and Transformative Works and Cultures. She is a fiction editor at Crab Apple Literary and a creative non-fiction editor at SQUID Literary & Arts Magazine. Rivkah is currently completing her MA in creative writing at Concordia University, where she is writing a novella with funding from the Fonds du recherche du Québec.

Rachel McCrum

Rachel McCrum is originally from Northern Ireland and has lived in Montréal since 2017. From 2010 to 2016, she was based in Edinburgh where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018) was published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d'encrier in 2020, as Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales (Finalist for 2022 Cole Foundation Translation Prize). With spoken word artist Amélie Prévost, she co-wrote and co-performs in La belle-mère/The Stepmother. She is the vocalist for poetry-noise group Pigs&Wolves.

 

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David Gawley 1936-2025

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