Despite her deceptively Irish appearance, Léonore Bailhache (she) hails from Normandy, France.
Author, translator and feminist, Léonore studied French Sign Language at the University of Poitiers, and holds a Master’s degree in contemporary literary creation (University of Le Havre and ÉSADHaR).
Léonore is passionate about children’s literature and its feminist icons (in their own way), from Anne Shirley to Fifi Brindacier to Georgia Nicholson, to name but a few. She has been published twice in Ancrages: Piscines publiques in issue 35, a literary translation of Megan Gail Coles’ poem Swimming Pool (from the collection Satched, House of Anansi, 2021), and Océan du souvenir, in issue 41.
Léonore has lived in various provinces of the country known as Canada, and has worked at the Frye Festival, Bouton d’or Acadie, and the Freeze Frame Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg. Since 2018, she has made her home in Siknikt (Moncton), on the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq peoples, where she lives with her partner and their beloved if bouncy dog, Gazelle.
Photo credit : Annie France Noël
