Shelley A. Leedahl is a fulltime, multi-genre writer who divides her time between Middle Lake, Saskatchewan and Edmonton, Alberta (as of February 2010).

Two of her eight titles are for young readers, and she frequently conducts author visits in schools and libraries. She has regularly led creative writing workshops, including the Sage Hill Youth Writing Camps in Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, SK, and also works as an editor, manuscript evaluator, book reviewer, and freelance writer.

Shelley has been the recipient of a number of national and international Fellowships. In 2009 she was a Fellow at Fundacion Valparaiso, in Mojacar, Almeria, Spain. In 2006 she was awarded both the Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts (Eastend, SK) and a Fellowship to attend the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Georgia (US). In 2004 she was a Fellow at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (Scotland), and in 2002/2003 she was one of five Canadian writers selected for the Canada-Mexico Writing/Photography Exchange in Mérida (Mexico) and Banff.

Other career highlights include participation in the Labrador Creative Writing Festival (2001), and having her children's book, The Bone Talker (with illustrator Bill Slavin), selected for a White Ravens designation and publication in Braille. Her poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction is frequently anthologized and broadcast on CBC Radio.

Her latest release, The House of the Easily Amused, (poetry, Oolichan Books) was released in Spring 2008. Shelley is currently working on new short story, poetry and essay manuscripts.

Aside from writing, she is an avid runner, swimmer, and gardener, and she is the mother of two adult children.