Rosella Leslie

Works by Rosella Leslie:

• Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits: A History of the Sunshine Coast
• Losing Us: A Dementia Caregiver's Journal
• Sunshine Coast: A Place to Be
• The Cougar Lady: Legendary Trapper of Sechelt Inlet
• Goat Lady's Daughter
• Drift Child
• The Federov Legacy

With Betty Keller, Rosella Leslie co-wrote Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits as well as Sea Silver: Inside British Columbia's Salmon Farming Industry. This led to her contribution as a co-author for A Stain Upon The Sea (Harbour, 2004), which won the 2005 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Born in Edmonton, she wrote The Sunshine Coast: A Place To Be as a resident of Sechelt.

Her novel The Goat Lady's Daughter (NeWest Press, 2006) concerns two eccentric sisters in a rustic cabin who unintentionally adopt an abandoned baby girl on the West Coast. Gentle Florrie welcomes baby Jen, having lost her own children, but wily Mag mostly prefers to behave as if Jen is a nuisance. In her book Drift Child (NeWest, 2010), a divorced, depressed woman's life changes when she is forced to care for three traumatized, orphaned children. The Federov Legacy (Caitlin, 2013) is an historical novel about two women, one from Canada and the other from Ukraine, who are brought together amid war and revolution in Eastern Europe during World War I. She appeared at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Word, Sechelt in both 2012 and 2015.