Lesley Choyce is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia. He is the author of 86 books for adults, teens and children. He teaches in the English Department and Transition Year Program at Dalhousie University. He is a year-round surfer and founding member of the 1990s spoken word rock band, The SurfPoets. Choyce also runs Pottersfield Press, a small literary publishing house and hosted the national TV show, Off The Page, for many years. His books have been translated into Spanish, French, German and Danish and he has been awarded the Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award.
The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil, by Lesley Choyce
Discography
Long Lost Planet. Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1996. (music/poetry)
Sea Level. Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1998. (music/poetry)
Radio, TV, Film and Video Credits
An Island to Stand On. 5 part radio drama: national CBC show Morningside. (script writer)
The Halifax Solution. Halifax: Pottersfield Productions. Documentary. (writer, performer)
A Hard Chance. Halifax: Pottersfield/Acadian. Documentary. (writer, co-producer)
East Coast Authors. Halifax: Channel Ten. (writer, host of 60 shows)
Off the Page. Halifax/Toronto: Vision TV; also airing on BookTelevision, Canadian Learning Television and ASN. (writer, co-producer, host for five seasons)
The Skunk Whisperer. Half hour docudrama. Co-production of Pottersfield Productions.(script writer, co-director with Lulu Keating). Aired on CBC-TV, CTV, Animal Planet.
