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Stella Leventoyannis Harvey is a Greek Canadian author born in Cairo, Egypt. She moved to Calgary as a child with her family. Stella's short stories have appeared in The Literary Leanings Anthology, The New Orphic Review, Emerge Magazine and The Dalhousie Review. Her non-fiction has appeared in Pique Newsmagazine, the Globe and Mail and CBC.  Signature Editions published her first novel, Nicolai’s Daughters, in 2012 and Psichogios Publications of Athens published the Greek translation in 2014. Signature Editions published The Brink of Freedom in 2015. Finding Callidora is Stella’s third novel. Stella founded the Whistler Writing Society, which each year produces the Whistler Writers Festival and other literary programming under her direction. She mentors students in The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University.