Leanne Ellul

Leanne Ellul is a poet and prose writer whose work spans both adult and children’s literature. She was named Best Emerging Author in the 2016 Malta National Book Prize, and the same year she was listed in the Commonwealth Young Achievers Book. Her poetry collections include L-Inventarju tal-Kamra l-Kaħla (2020), Bjuda (2022), and Il-Manifest tas-Siġar (2022). Her poems have been published in adda, Asymptote, Modern Poetry in Translation, Columbia Journal, and Circumference, and translated into Arabic, Croatian, Frisian, Italian, Greek, and Slovenian.

She is also the author of two award-winning young adult novels, Gramma (2015) and be;n il-kmiem (2025). Leanne lectures in Maltese literature and creative writing, and is actively involved in NGOs like Inizjamed and the HELA Foundation.