Luba Lesychyn

About the Author

Raised in Southern Ontario and immersed in the Ukrainian-Canadian community, Luba developed an early appreciation for history, culture, and the stories held within places and objects. After graduate studies in history, she spent more than two decades at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, where the world of museums became both her profession and the setting for her fiction.

Her career later took her into museum consulting, research, education, and the corporate world before she retired. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Luba is now at work on her third novel. Her first two books, Theft by Chocolate and Theft Between the Rains, are light-hearted tales of international art theft, blending intrigue, humour, and the captivating world of museums.

After many years in Toronto, Luba now finds sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest. She divides her time among writing, yoga, meditation, travel, dance, and the arts, continually drawn to places where beauty, history, and mystery converge.

Since the beginning of her publishing journey, Luba has donated a portion of the proceeds from her book sales to Tree Canada. Her commitment to supporting our forests extends beyond her books—she is a regular supporter of Tree Canada and has helped fund the planting of what amounts to a small forest of trees.