Sarah de Leeuw

Sarah de Leeuw is a human geographer. She has a PhD in historical-cultural geography, and is currently an Assistant Professor with the Northern Medical Program at UNBC, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.

De Leeuw grew up on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii (The Queen Charlotte Islands), then lived in Terrace, BC. She returned to northern BC after spending  four years in Ontario, then lived and worked in Arizona as a visiting Fulbright scholar with the University of Arizona. She earned a BFA from the University of Victoria, after which she spent time teaching English in South Korea. She has also worked as a tug boat driver, women’s centre coordinator, logging camp cook, and a journalist and correspondent for Connections Magazine and CBC radio’s BC Almanac. Her first book, Unmarked was published in 2004, and her second, Geographies of a Lover, is an upcoming title with NeWest Press.

In 2009, de Leeuw won first place in the creative nonfiction category of the CBC Literary Awards for her story, Columbus Burning.

Click here for "12 or 20 questions with Sarah de Leeuw", an interview with Rob Mclennan.