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About The Author

Leila Marshy

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.

Books by Leila Marshy

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