Sarah de Leeuw is a Canadian writer who wrote Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16, Frontlines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia, and Geographies of a Lover. A native of British Columbia, she grew up in Duncan, the Queen Charlotte Islands and Terrace. She has worked as a tug boat driver, logging camp cook and journalist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Victoria where she worked on the student newspaper, The Martlet and a PhD in cultural/historical geography from Queen's University. Her books Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16 and Frontlines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia reflect her interest in geography and small communities in British Columbia. Unmarked is a series of short essays, each linked to a specific place, evoking the local geography and community, and often linked to memories from de Leeuw's childhood. Frontlines is a series of biographical essays about people working in health care and their connections with community. 

January 1st, 1973 in (Age 51)