Marsha Lederman moved to the Opinion section as a full-time columnist in 2022, after 15 years as The Globe and Mail’s respected and prolific Western Arts Correspondent. Her award-winning work as an arts and culture feature writer included an oral history of Margaret Atwood’s wonderful and terrible 2019 article on Margaret Atwood’s Artist of the Year; and a reported personal essay about the arts and essay on the arts and climate change. As a columnist, Marsha’s areas of interest include social justice issues; politics; feminism; the environment; arts and culture; family life; and the everyday. She also continues to contribute to The Globe’s Arts section, primarily writing profiles. In 2022, Marsha published her first book, Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed. It was a national bestseller that earned accolades and made many year-end book lists, including The Globe’s. In 2023, it won the Western Canada Jewish Book Award for Memoir or Biography. Marsha was born and raised in Toronto and has lived in Vancouver since 2007 (with stints in Barrie and Hamilton, Ontario, and Dublin, Ireland along the way).
