Kathy-Diane Leveille has loved books forever.  Her best friends are books; the promising characters, worlds and challenges they contain.  When she was growing up in Northern Ontario, a Saturday wasn’t complete without a trip to the library.  She would sit at the back of the city bus, where there was plenty of room to spread the booty, and savor the potential that hummed between the covers.

It wasn’t until after Kathy-Diane had been working as a broadcast journalist with CBC radio for ten years, that she discovered that the only thing more fulfilling than reading a wonderful story; trying to write one.

Visit Kathy-Diane on MySpace

Kathy-Diane became a transplanted Maritimer twenty years ago when she moved to the Kennebecasis River. She lives by a garden visited by a colorful array of wild birds with her husband and family.

Kathy-Diane’s award winning fiction has been published in a number of literary journals, and adapted to radio drama for CBC’s Morningside, Outfront and  Summer Drama Festival.   Her prose has been revised for the stage and performed by New City Theater in Saint John.

Subcribe to the Author's newsletter.

Kathy-Diane is an avid fan of Julia Cameron’s The Artist Way and believes we all have the ability, untapped or otherwise, to be creative in a multitude of ways like planting, cooking, relationships or renovating.  She fills the well of inspiration sharing ideas spawned by books with great friends, meditative walks along the river, digging in the garden; and, oh yes, never missing a weekly jaunt to the holiest sanctuary of them all: the library.

Kathy-Diane enjoys sharing her passion for words. She has volunteered as a tutor for READ Saint John, Adult Literacy Programs; taught creative writing to young offenders at the Saint John Regional Correction Center; and entertained school children with workshops on radio drama. She is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, Sisters in Crime, International Thrill Writers, Crime Writers of Canada and Kiss of Death RWA Chapter.

When she isn’t writing, Kathy-Diane spends her time daydreaming in the garden and watching the birds on the east coast where she lives with her husband and two sons.