Lori Lansens is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter.[1]

Lansens was a successful screenwriter, whose credits included the films South of Wawa, Wolf Girl and Marine Life, before publishing her first novel Rush Home Road in 2002.[1] The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[2]

Lansens' follow-up novel, The Girls, was published in 2005.[3] The Girls received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.[4] and was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2007.[5]

She followed up with The Wife's Tale in 2009,[6] and The Mountain Story in 2015.[7] In fall 2019 Lansens published her latest novel, This Little Light, an explosive story about the bombing of a Calabasas Christian school, and the rebellious young girl who is falsely accused. It deals with themes of sex and religion, which Lansens has always explored in her work.[8]

Originally from Chatham, Ontario,[9] Lansens currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband Milan Cheylov, a television director and producer, and their children.[10]

Bibliography

• Rush Home Road (2002) ISBN 978-0-307-36328-2
• The Girls (2006) ISBN 978-0-676-97796-7
• The Wife's Tale (2010) ISBN 978-0-307-37304-5
• The Mountain Story (2015) ISBN 978-0-345-80902-5
• This Little Light (2019) ISBN 978-0735276420

References

External links

• Official website
• Lori Lansens at IMDb