Born in Barrie, Ontario, Lesley Battler's work has been published in Alberta Views, Arc, Arc (Quarc issue), Contemporary Verse 2, dandelion, filling Station, Matrix, Other Voices, PRISM international, and west coast line. She won the PRISM international Earle Birney award (2012), and the University of Calgary Poem of the Season award (2009) for a poem that became part of Endangered Hydrocarbons. Battler received an MA in English from Concordia University, and currently lives in Calgary, where she works in the petrochemical industry.