Brendan McLeod

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Brendan McLeod is a spoken word artist and musician based out of Vancouver. He is the winner of the National Individual Final at the 2004 Canadian SpokenWordlympics, awarded to the top SLAM poet in Canada. In 2005, he was Vancouver's Grand SLAM Champion. He has toured extensively in North America and Europe as both a solo performer and member of the spoken word/music troupe The Fugitives. He finished second in the world at Holland's Word Slampionship in June 2005. As a musician he led Ontario's seven piece jazz/folk/funk group Eden Express, the Vancouver based acoustic trio Bernie, and currently is a member of the spoken word/music troupe, The Fugitives, with Barbara Adler, CR Avery, and Mark Berube.

He received his MA in Philosophy in 2001. Excerpts from his first novel were published in Sophia. He also won the 29th annual 3-day novel contest in Vancouver for his work "Convictions of Leonard McKinley".

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