Dr. Sarah de Leeuw

Sarah de Leeuw is a professor and the Research Director of the Health Arts Research Centre. Shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award (non-fiction), she holds two CBC Literary Prizes for creative non-fiction and the Dorthey Livesay BC Book Prize for poetry. Author/editor of eleven books, de Leeuw is a Canada Research Chair (Humanities and Health Inequities) with the Northern Medical Program in Prince George, a distributed site of UBC’s Faculty of Medicine. She grew up on Haida Gwaii and now divides her time between Lheidli T’enneh/Dakelh Territory (Prince George) and Syilx Territory (Okanagan Centre), BC.