Julia Leggett was born in Calgary but grew up in Zimbabwe. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She has served on the poetry editorial board for Prism magazine. Her work has appeared in Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia, edited by Susan Musgrave (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2013). She lives in Victoria, BC, where she is working on her masters in counselling psychology and a book of poetry. This is her first book.