Leo Valiquette

Leo Valiquette (pronounced "valli-ket") grew up in Eastern Ontario, Canada, but had become a regular tourist of Tatooine, Middle Earth, and that barn in Charlotte’s Web by the age of eight. He first trained to work in museums before taking up the pen as a journalist, newspaper editor, and then corporate business writer. This love of the fantastical and the historical, as well as finding the root of a story, fuel his need to create worlds of his own.

His mother made that introduction to Star Wars and E.B. White, while his Grade 3 teacher revealed the Shire and Middle Earth a year later. The course was pretty much set after that. Leo has several novel projects on the board. His first to be published is a gritty epic fantasy titled Bane of All Things—BoAT for short—which is available now.

Leo lives in a different part of Eastern Ontario these days, under the apple trees by the banks of a lazy old river. The tireless support of his wife, Natalie, keeps him chasing the dream of becoming a career author, while his autistic son William everyday teaches him the virtues of kindness and empathy.

A cancer survivor, Leo has been contesting with metastasized melanoma since late 2019.