![]() ![]() ![]() A Short History of the Blockade was released by the University of Alberta Press in early 2021. Her new novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies was released by the House of Anansi Press in the fall of 2020 and in the US by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s best books of the year and was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. Leanne is the author of seven books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which won the MacEwan University Book of the Year was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award was long listed for CBC Canada Reads and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Quill & Quire. It was produced during the on-going social isolation of COVID-19 and was released on Gizhiiwe Music in the Fall of 2020. ![]() Her EP Noopiming Sessions combines readings from her novel Noopiming with soundscapes composed and performed by Ansley Simpson and James Bunton with a gorgeous video by Sammy Chien and the Chimerik Collective. Leanne’s second album, f(l)light, was released in 2016 and is a haunting collection of story-songs that effortlessly interweave Simpson’s complex poetics and multi-layered stories of the land, spirit, and body with lush acoustic and electronic arrangements. Leanne has performed in venues and festivals across Canada with her sister singer songwriter Ansley Simpson and guitarist Nick Ferrio. ![]()
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