Amanda Leduc
Photo: © Trevor Cole
Author Bio: AMANDA LEDUC is a disabled writer whose critically acclaimed 2025 novel, Wild Life, was described as “brilliant, precious, [and] incomparable” by Alicia Elliott, shortlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Giller Prize. She is also the author of the equally acclaimed novels The Centaur’s Wife and The Miracles of Ordinary Men, and her non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space was nominated for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award. Her essays and stories have appeared across Canada, the U.S., the UK, and Australia, and she speaks regularly across North America on accessibility and the role of disability in storytelling. Amanda holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews. She has cerebral palsy and presently makes her home in Hamilton, Ontario.
