A young woman stands in front of a chain link fence

Amy LeBlanc

Pronouns: She/Her

Positions

Calgary Distinguished Writers Program Coordinator

Faculty of Arts , Dean's Office

Research Assistant

Faculty of Arts , Department of English

Graduate Assistant Teaching

Faculty of Arts , Department of English

Contact information

Web presence

Location

CDWP Office : SS1319
PhD Office: SS1031

Background

Educational Background

M.A. English, University of Calgary , 2021

B. Ed. Secondary English Language Arts, University of Calgary , 2019

B.A. Honours English and Creative Writing, University of Calgary , 2017

Biography

Bio:

Amy LeBlanc is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary and Managing Editor at Canthius. Amy's debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, was published with Gordon Hill Press in March 2020 and was long listed for the 2021 ReLit Award and selected as a finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Her novella, Unlocking, was published by the University of Calgary Press in June 2021. Amy has two books forthcoming: a short story collection entitled Homebodies (Great Plains Publications, spring 2023) and her second poetry collection I used to live here (Gordon Hill Press, 2025). Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Room, Arc, The Fiddlehead, Funicular, Canadian Literature, CV2, PRISM International, and the Literary Review of Canada among others. Amy's latest poetry chapbook "Undead Juliet at the Museum" was published with ZED Press in August 2021. Amy is a recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and was a finalist for an Alberta Magazine Publishers Showcase Award for poetry in 2021. She is a recipient of a SSHRC CGS-D award and is a 2022 Killam Laureate— https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/killam-award-winner-identifies-connections-between-haunted-house-and-sick-body 

Recent and forthcoming publications: 
Articles: 

- "(De)composing Gothicism: Disturbing the (eco-)Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle," co-authored with Leah Van Dyk, forthcoming in Studies in American Fiction.

- "Think about what you don’t get to see”: Reading Ghosts and Unnatural Narration in Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook" forthcoming in The Journal of Narrative Theory (56.1), 2026

"(Me=Aquarius=very unpredictable) Ghostliness and Temporality in Tamaki & Tamaki’s Skim," in Gnosis.

Book chapters: 

- "The Uncanny and Doubling Horror of Childhood: Abject Disruptions in Stranger Things," forthcoming in Black Witches & Queer Ghosts: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials (Lexington Books, 2024). 

- "‘Do you trust your friends?’: Horror, Narrative Authority, and Parkdale Haunt" forthcoming in Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror (TBC) 

- “Love and Queerness at the End of the World: The Collective Catharsis of Sad Girl Music,” co-authored with Ryanne Kap (forthcoming in Music In/As Literature, under contract with Lexington Books).

Creative work:  

- "Someone is Dead," (short story), forthcoming in ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada. 

- "Murine" (poem), in The Fiddlehead

- "Fulmination," (poem), forthcoming in Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review.

-"The witch gets sick and her stomach is full of hair" (poem), forthcoming in THIS Magazine. 

 

 

Research

Areas of Research

Gothicism
  • Canadian Gothic Literature 
  • Haunted House Literature 
  • Horror Media 
  • Videogames 
Disability Studies
Creative Writing

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ENGL 336.04 Creative Writing: Across the Genres Spring 2024

Awards

  • Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal, Nominated by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards. 2023
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, Killam Trusts. 2022
  • CGS-D Award , SSHRC. 2021
  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta . 2020
  • Eyes High Doctoral Recruitment Award , Faculty of Graduate Studies . 2021
  • Kathleen and Russell Lane Canadian Writing Scholarship, 2020
  • CGS-M Joseph Bombardier Scholarship, SSHRC. 2020
  • Master's Research Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies . 2020