Kathy-Diane Leveille

1957-

Kathy-Diane Leveille is a former broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her short story collection, Roads Unravelling (Sumach Press), was published in 2003 after a selection from its pages, "Learning to Spin", was adapted to radio drama for CBC’s Summer Drama Festival. The tale "Showdown at the Four Corner’s Corral" was revised for the stage and performed by New City Theater in Saint John. Her debut suspense novel, Let the Shadows Fall Behind You, was published by Kunati Books April 2009.  Standing in the Whale’s Jaw followed in 2013 from Tightrope Books. Leveille’s prose has been published in several literary journals including Grain, Room of One’s Own, Oklahoma Review, Pottersfield Portfolio and The Cormorant, as well as various anthologies such as Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction (Pottersfield Press) and New Brunswick Short Stories (Neptune). Her fiction won the Short Grain Contest (dramatic monologue) in 2000. A humorous commentary I Know What You Didn’t Do Last Summer aired on CBC. She currently lives near the Kennebecasis River in New Brunswick.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Quispamsis