Montrealer Leila Marshy is of Palestinian-Newfoundland parentage. She has been a filmmaker, a baker, an app designer, a marketer, a farmer, and editor of online culture journal Rover Arts. She founded the Friends of Hutchison Street, a groundbreaking community group bringing Hasidic and non-Hasidic neighbours together in dialogue. She has published stories and poetry in Canadian and American journals and anthologies.
The Philistine is her first novel.
The Philistine is her first novel.
