Lexie Angelo (MSc)
Thesis title: Criminal spaces: Examining postcolonial places and their effect on criminality in contemporary Canadian and Scottish detective novels.
PhD supervisors:
Background
Lexie Angelo is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her chapbook A Rough Season was released in 2020 by Loft on Eighth Press. Additionally, her work has also appeared in Gutter Magazine, Culinaire Magazine, Neon Books, and The Selkie Publications CIC. In 2021, an exhibition of her historical fiction work on Chinatown was hosted at the Lougheed House museum in Calgary, AB. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Carlyle Norman Scholarship for Emerging Literary Artists Endowment, and was awarded a residency at The Banff Centre with award-winning writer Ayelet Tsabari. Since then, she’s received grant funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Calgary Arts Development. She is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada, Society of Young Publishers, and Society of Authors. She teaches at the University of Calgary and owns Radical Bookshop and Press. Follow her on twitter @angelolexie or www.lexieangelo.com
Qualifications
University of Edinburgh (2018)
Master of Science, First Class Distinction, Creative Writing
Royal Roads University (2014)
Bachelor of Arts, Communications
Responsibilities & affiliations
Crime Writers of Canada
Writers Guild of Alberta
Writer's Union of Canada
Society of Young Publishers, Scotland
Society of Authors, United Kingdom
Research summary
My primary research interests include Canadian and Scottish contemporary crime fiction.
Project activity
- Very Much Alive, anthology of Canadian writers and poets funded by Calgary Arts Development
- Chinook Blast, collection of short stories published in partnership with Radical Books and the Calgary Central Library
Current project grants
Government of Alberta, Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction, 2023
Calgary Arts Development Micro Grant, 2023
Past project grants
Chinook Blast, Artist Grant 2021
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant 2021
Calgary Arts Development, Micro Grant for Artists, 2021
Calgary Arts Development, Literary Arts Collective Grant 2019
The Banff Centre, Carlyle Norman Scholarship 2018
Invited speaker
- June 2023 - MOTIVE Crime Writing Festival, Toronto, Canada
- July 2023 - Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, London, UK
Organiser
- Very Much Alive Anthology Launch, The Selkie Publications CIC, 2021
Participant
- Gotham Writer's Conference New York, USA
- Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Toronto, Canada
- Society of Young Publishers Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Bloody Scotland, Crime Writer's Conference, Stirling, Scotland
- Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
- University of Edinburgh Book Publishing Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Man Booker 50 Conference, London, England
- Manchester Metropolitan University Writing Fair, Manchester, England
Papers delivered
Writing a postcolonial space without its people: A study of Louise Penny's A Better Man July 2023, Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference