Leanne Prain
Leanne Prain helps communities connect through creative ideas. A writer, speaker and certified design professional, her previous books include Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti (with Mandy Moore), now available in a 10th anniversary edition, and Strange Material: Storytelling through Textiles.
Prain has been called a Shameless Woman by Shameless magazine and a Lingo Maker of the Year by Maclean’s magazine, Her creative projects and books have been featured in major publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue Knitting, the BBC, Irish Public Radio, the Guardian, CBC, and the Globe and Mail.
When Prain is not writing, she serve as the co-artistic director of The Imprint, a literary collective founded with poet Laura Farina to explore participatory acts of writing in public spaces.
Website: leeanneprain.com
Twitter: @LeeannePraine
Instagram: @leeanneprain