Sarah de Leeuw : part one

Dr. Sarah de Leeuw, a Professor with the University of Northern British Columbia’s Northern Medical Program, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, is a cultural-historical geographer and creative writer (poetry and literary non-fiction). She grew up on Haida Gwaii and Terrace, both in northern British Columbia. Her research, creative writing, teaching and activism focus on feminist anti-colonial social justice, especially in rural, remote, and marginalized geographies. Author or editor of 11 books and more than 100 journal papers and book chapters, de Leeuw has been short-listed for a Governor General’s Literary Award, has won a Western Magazine Gold Award and the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Humanities and Health Inequities.  She oversees The Health Arts Research Centre at UNBC and is a Research Associate with the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH). In 2017, de Leeuw was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada as a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

What are you working on?

A long poem, written entirely in couplets, entitled Lot. Infused with historical documents and settler anthropological stories, it’s about growing up on Haida Gwaii and the colonial geographies of British Columbia today.