About
Bio
Lexie Angelo is a storyteller, writer, and screenwriter. She holds a Master’s with Distinction in Creative Writing from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor of Arts from Royal Roads University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh with a focus on Canadian and Scottish crime fiction.
She was shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award in 2024 and pitched an early draft of her crime novel at Bloody Scotland. Her short fiction has appeared in Gutter Magazine, Neon Books, and WRITE Magazine. She is a two-time recipient of the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction, and has received funding from Calgary Arts Development and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Her chapbook titled A Rough Season was released in 2020 by Loft on Eighth Press.
Her work has appeared in anthologies including: Very Much Alive by The Selkie (UK), From Arthur’s Seat by Egg Box Publishing (UK) and The War Memory Project by the Alexandra Writer’s Centre (Canada). She is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada, Crime Writer's of Canada, Society of Young Publishers and Society of Authors. She has held exhibitions at both the Lougheed House and Heritage Park for her creative non-fiction which engages with the difficult subject-matter of police brutality and racism inflicted on the Chinese community in Canada.
Lexie routinely performs her short fiction work to international audiences and advocates for the literary arts. She was formerly the Chief Editor at The Selkie Publications CIC, a UK-based publisher dedicated to publishing under-represented voices, and she founded Radical Bookshop and Press in 2020. She currently teaches creative writing courses at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Find her @angelolexie on Threads or BlueSky.
Memberships
- The Writer's Union of Canada
- Crime Writer's of Canada
- Writer's Guild of Alberta
- Scotland Society of Young Publishers
- Society of Authors, United Kingdom
Volunteer
Board of Directors, Alexandra Writers' Centre Society (2016 - 2019)