Leslie Gentile’s novel, Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer, won the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize and the Jean Little First-Novel Award. She is a musician in The Leslie Gentile Band and lives on Vancouver Island on the traditional territory of the WSÁNEĆ people. Though not connected with a specific nation, Leslie is of Indigenous and settler heritage, and has Salish, Tuscarora, and Scottish ancestry.
