Lori Lansens
Lori Lansens is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter.
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. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Lansens' follow-up novel, The Girls, was published in 2005. The Girls received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association. and was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2007.
She followed up with The Wife's Tale in 2009, and The Mountain Story in 2015. 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.
Originally from Chatham, Ontario, Lansens currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband Milan Cheylov, a television director and producer, and their children.
