Lezlie Lowe

{{Infobox person

| name = Lezlie Lowe

| birth_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|journalist|professor}}

| notable_works = {{Plainlist|

No Place to Go (2018)
The Volunteers (2022)

}}

| employer = University of King's College

}}

Lezlie Lowe is a Canadian writer and journalist from Nova Scotia. She is the author of two books: No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs (2018), and The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War (2022). She teaches journalism at the University of King's College, and has written an extensive body of articles for The Chronicle Herald since 2009.

Biography

Lowe is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches journalism at the University of King's College.{{Sfnmp|Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia|2022}}

Lowe began writing for the Halifax newspaper The Chronicle Herald in 2009. She resigned from her position as a columnist with the newspaper in 2016, following the publication of a controversial story concerning refugee children attending the Chebucto Heights Elementary School in Cowie Hill.{{Sfnmp|McMillan|2016|Shaw|2016}}

In 2018, Lowe published an article in The Chronicle Herald detailing three men who had caused harm to her in the past, referred to in the article as her "MeToo stories". While she did not name the three men discussed in the article, one chose to contact her following its publication, apologizing for his inappropriate actions when they were teenagers. Lowe stated that his apology was "exceptional", and that the man took full responsibility for his prior actions.{{Sfnmp|CBC Radio|2018}}

Lowe released her first book in 2018, titled No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs. The book was published by Coach House Books of Toronto, Ontario. It discusses the importance of public bathrooms in urban planning, arguing that city planners have historically neglected to provide adequate public bathroom facilities when designing city spaces.{{Sfnmp|Hoang|2018|Wold|2019}} No Place to Go was listed amongst "25 works of Canadian nonfiction to watch" by CBC Books in 2018,{{Sfnmp|CBC Books|2018b}} and was a finalist for the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction at the 2019 Atlantic Book Awards.{{Sfnmp|van Koeverden|2019}}

Her second book, The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War, was published in 2022 by Nimbus Publishing. The book concerns the role of women volunteers in Halifax during the Second World War, at a time when housing and commodities were in short supply in the city.{{Sfnmp|Cook|2022|Hudson|2022}}

In 2023, Lowe led a walking tour in Halifax with fellow Nova Scotia author Rebecca Rose, intended to highlight landmarks of historical significance to the LGBT community in the city. Locations in the tour included those mentioned in Lowe's book The Volunteers and Rose's book Before the Parade.{{Sfnmp|CBC News|2023}}

Publications

{{cite book |last=Lowe |first=Lezlie |date=2018 |title=No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs |url= |location=Toronto, ON |publisher=Coach House Books |isbn=978-1-5524-5370-4 |oclc=1022779702}}{{Sfnmp|CBC Books|2018a|Hoang|2018|Wold|2019}}
{{cite book |last=Lowe |first=Lezlie |author-mask=1 |date=2022 |title=The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War |url= |location=Halifax, NS |publisher=Nimbus Publishing |isbn=978-1-7747-1054-8 |oclc=1286373255}}{{Sfnmp|Cook|2022|Gow|2022|Hudson|2022|Mullin|2022}}

References

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{{cite news |author={{Text|CBC Books}} |author-mask=[{{Italics correction|CBC Books}}] |date=31 July 2018 |title=No Place to Go |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/no-place-to-go-1.4761366 |work=CBC Books |location= Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=22 June 2025 |ref={{Sfnref|CBC Books|2018a}} |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701131133/https://www.cbc.ca/books/no-place-to-go-1.4761366 |archive-date=1 July 2022}}
{{cite news |author={{Text|CBC Books}} |author-mask=[{{Italics correction|CBC Books}}] |date=8 August 2018 |title=25 works of Canadian nonfiction to watch for this fall |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/25-works-of-canadian-nonfiction-to-watch-for-this-fall-1.4768667 |work=CBC Books |location= Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=22 June 2025 |ref={{Sfnref|CBC Books|2018b}} |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250505155044/https://www.cbc.ca/books/25-works-of-canadian-nonfiction-to-watch-for-this-fall-1.4768667 |archive-date=5 May 2025}}
{{cite news |author={{Text|CBC News}} |author-mask=[{{Italics correction|CBC News}}] |date=24 March 2023 |title=Halifax walking tour highlights hidden histories of women, LGBTQ community |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-walking-tour-lgbtq-1.6790117 |work=CBC News |location=Nova Scotia |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325085304/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-walking-tour-lgbtq-1.6790117 |archive-date=25 March 2023}}
{{cite news |author={{Text|CBC Radio}} |author-mask=[{{Italics correction|CBC Radio}}] |date=23 October 2018 |title=Halifax columnist describes her #MeToo moments and gets an unexpected apology |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4868610/halifax-columnist-describes-her-metoo-moments-and-gets-an-unexpected-apology-1.4872796 |work=CBC Radio |location= |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222072429/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4868610/halifax-columnist-describes-her-metoo-moments-and-gets-an-unexpected-apology-1.4872796 |archive-date=22 December 2022}}
{{cite news |last=Cook |first=Tim |date=13 September 2022 |title=How Halifax Women Won the Second World War |url=https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/books/the-volunteers |work=Canada's History |location=Winnipeg, MB |publisher=Canada's National History Society |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521135215/https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/books/the-volunteers |archive-date=21 May 2024}}
{{cite news |last=Gow |first=Steve |date=8 March 2022 |title=New book honours women who quietly helped win the Second World War |url=https://halifax.citynews.ca/2022/03/08/new-book-honours-women-that-quietly-helped-win-the-second-world-war-5136528/ |work=CityNews |location=Halifax, NS |publisher=Rogers Communications |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250622165630/https://halifax.citynews.ca/2022/03/08/new-book-honours-women-that-quietly-helped-win-the-second-world-war-5136528/ |archive-date=22 June 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Hoang |first=Cindy Lam |date=15 November 2018 |title=You go, I go, we all go: Toilet talk with Lezlie Lowe |url=https://capitalcurrent.ca/you-go-i-go-we-all-go-toilet-talk-with-lezlie-lowe/ |work=Capital Current |location=Ottawa, ON |publisher=Carleton University |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250315173839/https://capitalcurrent.ca/you-go-i-go-we-all-go-toilet-talk-with-lezlie-lowe/ |archive-date=15 March 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Hudson |first=Allan |date=8 September 2022 |title=The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War by Lezlie Lowe |url=https://miramichireader.ca/2022/09/the-volunteers-how-halifax-women-won-the-second-world-war-by-lezlie-lowe/ |work=The Miramichi Reader |location=Miramichi, NB |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322170255/https://miramichireader.ca/2022/09/the-volunteers-how-halifax-women-won-the-second-world-war-by-lezlie-lowe/ |archive-date=22 March 2025}}
{{cite news |last=McMillan |first=Elizabeth |date=15 April 2016 |title=Lezlie Lowe, Chronicle Herald columnist, quits after Chebucto Heights school article |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lezlie-lowe-chronicle-herald-columnist-quits-1.3537537 |work=CBC News |location=Nova Scotia |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241211171448/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lezlie-lowe-chronicle-herald-columnist-quits-1.3537537 |archive-date=11 December 2024}}
{{cite news |last=Mullin |first=Morgan |date=4 March 2022 |title=The story of the Second World War wouldn't be the same without the women of Halifax |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/reviews/article-the-story-of-the-second-world-war-wouldnt-be-the-same-without-the/ |work=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto, ON |publisher=The Woodbridge Company |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612154035/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/reviews/article-the-story-of-the-second-world-war-wouldnt-be-the-same-without-the/ |archive-date=12 June 2022}}
{{cite news |last=Shaw |first=Kyle |date=15 April 2016 |title=Lezlie Lowe quits Chronicle Herald over refugee school story |url=https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/lezlie-lowe-quits-chronicle-herald-over-refugee-school-story-5335625 |work=The Coast |location=Halifax, NS |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250622165838/https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/lezlie-lowe-quits-chronicle-herald-over-refugee-school-story-5335625 |archive-date=22 June 2025}}
{{cite news |last=van Koeverden |first=Jane |date=2 May 2019 |title=Lisa Moore, Elisabeth de Mariaffi & Sharon Bala shortlisted for $25K prize for Atlantic Canadian fiction |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/lisa-moore-elisabeth-de-mariaffi-sharon-bala-shortlisted-for-25k-prize-for-atlantic-canadian-fiction-1.5120173 |work=CBC Books |location= |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=22 May 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128152947/https://www.cbc.ca/books/lisa-moore-elisabeth-de-mariaffi-sharon-bala-shortlisted-for-25k-prize-for-atlantic-canadian-fiction-1.5120173 |archive-date=28 November 2023}}
{{cite news |last=Wold |first=Mike |date=3 April 2019 |title=Book Review: 'No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs' |url=https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2019/04/03/book-review-no-place-go-how-public-toilets-fail-our-private-needs |work=Real Change |location=Seattle, WA |publisher=Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414001123/https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2019/04/03/book-review-no-place-go-how-public-toilets-fail-our-private-needs |archive-date=14 April 2024}}
{{cite web |author={{Text|Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia}} |author-mask=[Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia] |interviewer-first=K.R. |interviewer-last=Byggdin |interviewer-link=K.R. Byggdin |date=2022 |title=Author spotlight: Lezlie Lowe |url=https://writers.ns.ca/author-spotlights/author-spotlight-lezlie-lowe/ |website=writers.ns.ca |location=Halifax, NS |publisher=Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia |access-date=22 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250326070404/https://writers.ns.ca/author-spotlights/author-spotlight-lezlie-lowe/ |archive-date=26 March 2025}}

External links

{{Official website|https://lezlielowe.com/}}
[https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/17689070.Lezlie_Lowe Lezlie Lowe] at Goodreads
[https://49thshelf.com/Contributors/L/Lowe-Lezlie Lezlie Lowe] at 49th Shelf, Association of Canadian Publishers

Category:Living people

Category:Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia

Category:Academic staff of University of King's College

Category:Journalists from Nova Scotia

Category:21st-century Canadian writers

Category:21st-century Canadian women writers

Category:21st-century Canadian journalists

Category:21st-century Canadian women journalists