

Leigh is fond of real ale, border collies, tea, and crumpets.

She is a qualified nutritionist with an interest in food security and intersectional vegan feminism. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. When she's not at the beach with her pup, Leigh works as a medical copywriter focusing on nutrition and public health communication. Buy Don't Bang the Barista: Volume 1 (All Out Vancouver) by Matthews, Leigh from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Her poetry and journalism has appeared in Hobart Pulp, Driftwood, Aesthetica, PUSH, and elsewhere. Leigh took part in Art Song Lab 20, and her work featured at Queerotica as part of the 2015 Queer Arts Festival. Set in East Vancouver, the series follows the lives of a medley of queer characters and offers all the fun, frolics and drama of classic pulp fiction, but none of the death, denial or heteronormativity. The All Out Vancouver series is a contemporary take on the genre of lesbian pulp fiction. Leigh is also the author of The Old Arbutus Tree (2013), the All Out Vancouver series: Don't Bang the Barista! (2014) and Go Deep (April, 2016), and the non-fiction title Eat to Beat Acne (2015). Em, Dont Bang the Barista & Go Deep, 2014 & 2016, Leigh Matthews, Em, the best friend of the protagonist, is a bisexual woman dating a man in the first. Her latest novel, Colony was published in September 2017, and is her first foray into speculative/science fiction. Leigh (L) Matthews is a queer, vegan, feminist writer living in Vancouver, BC.
