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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Her work breaks open the boundaries between story and song鈥攂ringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity.

Leanne has performed in venues and festivals across Canada with her sister singer songwriter Ansley Simpson and guitarist Nick Ferrio. Leanne鈥檚 second album, f(l)light, was released in 2016 and is a haunting collection of story-songs that effortlessly interweave Simpson鈥檚 complex poetics and multi-layered stories of the land, spirit, and body with lush acoustic and electronic arrangements. Her EP Noopiming Sessions combines readings from her novel Noopiming with soundscapes composed and performed by Ansley Simpson and James Bunton with a gorgeous video by . It was produced during the on-going social isolation of COVID-19 and was released on in the Fall of 2020.

Leanne is the author of seven books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which won the MacEwan University Book of the Year; was a finalist for the Rogers Writers鈥� Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award; was long listed for CBC Canada Reads; and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Quill & Quire. Her new novel was released by the House of Anansi Press in the fall of 2020 and in the US by the in 2021 and was named one of the and was short listed for the Governor General鈥檚 Literary Award for fiction. was released by the University of Alberta Press in early 2021. Her new project with , will be released in 2022 by Knopf Canada.