Personalized, Signed Copy of Waiting for the Cyclone by Leesa Dean

A Trillium Book Award Finalist

Women are too often cast in literature as inherently good and dependable—but this is not the case in the audacious stories of Waiting for the Cyclone.

Mary, a closet drinker, leaves her children with Debbie, a seemingly perfect housewife who shoots pharmaceuticals at night. Alison vacations with her husband, but wakes up in the tattooed arms of another man. Donna lies to her family about volunteering in Afghanistan so she can parasail with a lover in Turkey.

With authenticity and intensity, Dean challenges traditional literary archetypes by revealing female characters that are nuanced, contradictory, and boldly unapologetic.

About the Author: Leesa Dean

Leesa Dean was born in Northern British Columbia and raised in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. She spent a decade in Montreal where she studied Creative Writing at Concordia University before moving to Toronto. She also lived on random farms and beaches before eventually settling in Nelson, BC. She is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program and now teaches English and Creative Writing for Selkirk College's University Arts and Sciences department. Her fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and interviews have been published in The New Quarterly, Matrix, Lemon Hound, The Headlight Anthology, among others. She’s been a finalist for literary awards such as the Irving Layton Award, the Litpop Award, and the Quebec Writing Competition. She is a regular contributor to The New Quarterly and is the Interviews Editor for The Humber Literary Review. When she's not writing or teaching, she is almost certainly on a wild adventure somewhere, doing things like riding her bike across Canada or befriending circus bear trainers in the Deep South.

• Name : Leesa Dean