I write in several genres, playing with voice, dialogue, humour, and character. My work
includes: novels, plays, children’s literature, magazine features, short stories, non-
fiction, and scripts for film, TV and animation. My novel Heartache and Other Natural
Shocks won a book award.

I’m a visual thinker, so scenes pop into my head cinematically. Characters spring onto
the page fully formed, elbows-up, like Athena springing from Zeus’s thigh. They argue,
defy, eat well, lie, deceive, and tell other characters (and me) what to do. Most are
fictional, but some are family members, thinly disguised, who demand starring roles and
cameos. I know they’d get a kick out of hearing their voices come alive, once again.

Although I favour character-based comedy, I’m drawn to stories about the painful, moral
dilemmas we all face concerning: love, betrayal, loyalty, revenge, ambition, friendship,
and family. I like page-turners. I love dialogue. I try to nudge my protagonists toward
acts of courage and redemption, but not everyone has a good heart.

Fun fact: my children’s book Pigmalion was featured in the movie Elf.  

Literary agent: 5 Otter Literary

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Kirkus Review
Steeped in the history of the Quebecois separatist movement and 1970s fashion and pop culture… a refreshing break from contemporary teen fiction.

Globe and Mail 
Wishing Judy Blume had written a novel set in 1970 during the peak of the FLQ crisis? This is it. In her first teen book, Glenda Leznoff tells the stories of two teen girls leading very different lives, but linked by their neighbourhood geography and insatiable attraction to a bad-boy classmate named Ian (yes, he drives a motorcycle). Julia is quiet, artsy, contemplative and homesick as her family has just moved from Montreal to escape the political unrest. Carla is bold, sexually open, dramatic and wildly jealous of the attention Ian pays to Julia. The Blume comparison is apt because of the deliciously juicy realism; the simultaneous upheaval of both the country and two teen girls’ hormones is addictive and surprising. Leznoff gets teen girls – their conversations, their insecurities and their deep yearning for self-worth.