[Excerpt] A Host of Cells My daughter, India, died five years ago, when she was 16. Although she’s dead, her cells live on in a research laboratory at the University of Ottawa. I can’t bring myself to go there. About a year after India died, my husband, Mark, visited the lab. At the time we were…
Author: S. Lesley Buxton
Lesley Buxton's short fiction has appeared in magazines such as: The New Quarterly,The Antigonish Review,The Fiddlehead, and The Windsor Review.
Her blog, Fall On Me, Dear, http://onmefall.wordpress.com deals with the challenges of parenting a teenager with intractable epilepsy.
Currently she works at Wabi Sabi, a wool store in Ottawa where she runs the knit night and writes the blog.
This October she created a hand-crafted line of recycled toy owls known as Howls.
Upcoming in 2014, her collaboration with artist, Patti Normand entitled "Little Voices" will be on display with the City of Ottawa gallery..
Spiriting Away
S. Lesley Buxton reads a 2:20 excerpt from Chapter One – Spiriting Away, from her recently-published book: One Strong girl, surviving the unimaginbable – a mother’s memoir.
Upcoming Readings
Lesley has readings in the works in Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Beaufort South Carolina. Further details will be posted as they become available. To stay up-to-date with these events, and others, “Follow” this website by clicking on the “Follow Lesley Via email” button in the Footer, below. Testimonials about Lesley’s writing
Little Voices
Little Voices is the product of a unique partnership between visual artist, Patti Normand and writer, Lesley Buxton. Together, they have created an intimate portrait of a fictional Canadian town known as Silent Falls. The precisely detailed dioramas create a visual biography of the town and are intentionally small, like toys, so as to create a false sense…
S. Lesley Buxton. Writer. 