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Graduating year: 2015
Leanne Toshiko Simpson (HBA 2015 UTSC) is releasing her debut mental health novel, Never Been Better, with HarperCollins Canada and Putnam Books in the US on March 5, 2024. After working on the Bell Let’s Talk campaign for years, Leanne began teaching creative writing at Trinity College at the University of Toronto and is now an SSHRC-supported doctoral candidate at OISE.
Having experienced hospitalization for bipolar disorder during her undergraduate degree, Leanne co-founded an initiative teaching creative writing workshops inside psychiatric wards at CAMH. As a result, her debut novel speaks to the community she has found in mental health spaces and offers a joyful look at falling in love and figuring life out after a complicated diagnosis.