Lexie Angelo (BA, MSc)

Thesis title: Criminal spaces: Examining postcolonial Gothic places and their effect on criminality in contemporary Canadian detective novels.

Biography

Background

Lexie Angelo is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh. She is a two-time recipient of the Sir James Lougheed award from the Government of Alberta and was shortlisted for the New Writer’s Award by the Scottish Book Trust in 2024.

 

Her chapbook A Rough Season was released in 2020 by Loft on Eighth Press. Additionally, her work has also appeared in Write Magazine, Gutter 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, Crime Writers 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 social media @angelolexie or www.lexieangelo.com 

Qualifications

University of Edinburgh (2018)

Master of Science, First Class Distinction, Creative Writing

Thesis: Illustrating history as explored through revisionist historical fiction and testimonial life-writing in Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi) and Dispossession (Simon Grennan).   

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

Postgraduate teaching

Teaching Assistant

Edinburgh Futures Institute

Courses

  • Narratives of Digital Capitalism, Course Organizers: Dr Pip Thornton, Dr Ben Collier
  • Writing Speculative Fiction, Course Organizers: Dr Jane Alexander, Dr Jane McKie

Research summary

My primary research interests include:

  • Gothic studies
  • Postcolonialism
  • Graphic novels
  • Canadian and Scottish crime fiction
  • Research as creative practice

I am available for peer reviews, book reviews and author interviews. 

 

Project activity

Exhibitions

We Were Here: Stories From Early Chinatown, Calgary, AB 

  • The Lougheed House Museum July 1 - Oct 17, 2021
  • Heritage Park Gasoline Alley Jan 14 - April 30, 2022  

Special projects

  • 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, 2024
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

2024

  • 17th Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Halifax, NS
  • National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) Conference 2024

2023

  • Bloody Scotland, Pitch Perfect, Stirling, Scotland
  • MOTIVE Crime Writing Festival, Toronto, Canada
  • Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, London, England

Organiser

  • Very Much Alive Anthology Launch, The Selkie Publications CIC, 2021

Participant

Upcoming

  • Digital Research Conference, January 29, 2025 John McIntyre Conference Centre, The University of Edinburgh

Previous

  • 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 London  
  • When the flood strikes: Ecological crisis and the garrison mentality in Louise Penny's A Better Man, August 2024, IGA Conference Halifax

  • Liminal spaces: emotional engagement with nebulous places in creative writing, Nov 2024, NAWE Conference

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