Brendan McLeod is a Canadian spoken word artist, musician and novelist.

His work often deals with the exploration of social and political commentary, family histrionics, surreal love poems, obscure adventure stories, and powerful personal stories.

In 2006 McLeod was winner of the Three-Day Novel Contest and consequently his first novel, The Convictions of Leonard McKinley was published by Arsenal Pulp Press.

The novel has been called both "creepy but...good"[1] and a work of "buoyant irony".

[2] McLeod is also a member of The Fugitives, a "wildly talented spoken-word-cranked"[3] Vancouver-based band also including Adrian Glynn and Steven Charles.