Leah Ranada’s stories have been published in On Spec, Room Magazine, Santa Ana River Review, emerge 2013, and elsewhere. Her writing is informed by her childhood in Metro Manila and eventual move to Vancouver in 2006, where she made her permanent home.
In 2013, she attended The Writer’s Studio (TWS) at SFU. She released her debut novel, The Cine Star Salon (NeWest Press), in 2021. It won the gold medal in the multicultural category of the Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Awards. Her work will also appear in Magdaragat - An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Books, Fall 2023).