L.E. Vollick was born in Parry Sound, Ontario, and lived in Edmonton before reocating to Toronto and Montreal. She received a B.A. in creative writing and women's studies from York University, and an M.A. in the creative writing stream of English at Concordia University, Montreal. Currently she is a Ph.d candidate in English at McGill University.

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Vollick has published poetry and fiction in The WIER Tap Anthology (1992), dig: a journal for poetry (1994), Existere Magazine (1992-94), and The Headlight Anthology (1999, 2000). A chapter of The Originals appeared in Matrix Magazine (Fall, 2000). She was awarded first prize in the 1997 Robbie Burns Poetry Contest out of York University. The Originals is her first novel.

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"I'm not exaggerating when I say that The Originals could be the Catcher in the Rye of our generation." -- Hour, Montreal, March 2002 "What sets The Originals apart from so many other novels about malcontent, clubbing youth aside from the author's arresting prose is the fact that Vollick has firmly rooted her novel in the political context of the 1980s and 1990s... In The Originals, character and context are indivisible, which makes the story simultaneously universal and deeply personal." -- Clelia Scala, Paper Plates, 2003