Stella Harvey


Stella Leventoyannis Harvey is a Canadian author, as well as the founder and artistic director of the Whistler Writing Society. Under Harvey’s direction, the Whistler Writing Society produces the annual Whistler writers festival, the Authors in the School Program, the Whistler Writer in Residence Program and the Spring Reading Series.
Harvey was born in Cairo, Egypt and immigrated to Calgary, Alberta with her family as a child. She now lives in Whistler, British Columbia. Harvey is of Greek descent through her father and Lebanese and French descent through her mother.
In addition to writing and overseeing the Whistler Writing Society, Harvey mentors students in The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University. Prior to embarking on her writing career, she worked in various senior management roles in both the public and private sector and led or facilitate large organizational change projects. Harvey has a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Calgary and a certificate in Creative Writing from Simon Fraser University.

Novels

Finding Callidora The Brink of Freedom Nicolai’s Daughters, with Psichogios Publications of Athens publishing the Greek translation in 2014.

Short stories

  • “Step 5”
  • “Escape”
  • “Veinakh”
  • “La Straniera”
  • “Seconds”
  • “Words”
  • “The End”
  • “Runner Attacked”
  • “Nice Girl”

Non-fiction

  • “Cousins”
  • “After 56 Years of Marriage, My Parents Always Held Hands”
  • "The Vicious Circle: On the Writing Life”
  • “No Suits for These Cowboys: Lessons Learned by Young Entrepreneurs”
  • “No Suits for These Cowboys: Young Whistler Entrepreneurs Make Their Way”
  • “In Search of Whistler’s Soul”
  • “Bella Umbria”
  • “A Book Review of Navigator of New York”

Awards

WWW stellaharvey.com