Contact Lindsay: lindszv [at] yahoo [dot] ca
Twitter: @lindsayzv

Lindsay Zier-Vogel is a writer, bookmaker and arts educator based in Toronto. She studied contemporary dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, received her B.A. as an English Specialist at the University of Toronto and has completed an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto under the advisorship of award winning novelist, Anne Michaels.

She is currently completing a novel tentatively titled “The Opposite of Drowning.” It is set in Toronto in the early 1990s where twenty-year-old Bea Porter is a lifeguard on the edge of Lake Ontario.

Lindsay is also the creator of The Love Lettering Project, a one-of-a-kind community-based love letter art project. Currently in its seventh year, The Love Lettering Project was featured on CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera in February 2010 and March 2012, and in 2011 was deemed one of the 50 reasons to love Toronto by Toronto Life magazine.

In 2009, she travelled to Vitteaux, France for a month-long writing residency at La Roche D’Hys and in 2010, she was awarded a month-long writing residency at The Art Farm in Nebraska, U.S.A. In 2012, she was one of four artists-in-residence at the Anne Portnuff Theatre in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Lindsay’s work has been published in various literary journals including The Lampeter Review, Taddle Creek, Descant, dandelion, Grain, filling Station, room of one’s own, the Dance Current Magazine. She has read through various reading series and festivals including the Pivot Reading Series, Art Bar Series, Eden Mills Writers Festival and the Hillside Festival.

For information on The Love Lettering Project, please click here.

For information on Lindsay’s books arts, please click here.

For information on Lindsay’s arts education work, please click here.