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Leila Marshy
Leila Marshy is of Palestinian-Newfoundland parentage, which might explain a lot. She has worked for the Palestine Hospital in Cairo, the Palestinian Mental Health Association in Gaza, and Medical Aid for Palestine in Montreal. She founded a ground-breaking community group bringing Hasidim and their neighbours together for dialogue. She’s been a baker, a chicken farmer, an early mobile app designer, a film editor and a political campaigner. Her stories, poetry and articles have appeared in journals, newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Her first novel, The Philistine, was published in 2018. In November 2025, she edited the anthology Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada. She lives in Montreal.
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Leila Marshy is of Palestinian and Newfoundlander parentage, which is a lot. She been a filmmaker, a baker, an app designer, a marketer, a farmer, and editor of online culture journal Rover Arts. She has lived in Cairo, worked for Medical Aid for Palestine in Jerusalem, then in Montreal founded the Friends of Hutchison Street, a ground breaking community group bringing Hasidic and non-Hasidic neighbours together in dialogue. Her poetry and stories have appeared in Canadian and American journals and anthologies. The Philistine (LLP, 2018) is her first novel. She lives in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal). Author website: haikuboxer.com
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