Amanda Leduc
AMANDA LEDUC's essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the US and the UK. She is the author of the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Coach House Books, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Nonfiction, and the novel The Miracles of Ordinary Men (2013, ECW Press). Her latest novel is The Centaur’s Wife, out now with Random House Canada. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada's first festival for diverse authors and stories.
Books
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty?
The Centaur's Wife
By: Amanda Leduc
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the...