Choyce, Lesley: - Lesley Choyce is the author of several books of literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and young adult novels. He teaches Creative Writing at Dalhousie University and his books have been published in Danish, German, Spanish, French, Swedish and Slovenian. He has won The Dartmouth Book Award, The Atlantic Poetry Prize and The Ann Connor Brimer Award and has been short-listed for the Governor-General's Award. He lives at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, where he surfs year-round in the North Atlantic.