[1] During the Balkan Wars, Le Bas worked for the United Nations as a Training Consultant for UNPROFOR.

She took Owen Marshall’s Fiction Writing Course at Aoraki Polytechnic in 1997, and later received a writers' grant from Creative New Zealand.

[3] In 2010, she published her first children's book, Staying Home: My True Diary of Survival, under the pseudonym ‘Jesse O’.

[5] Le Bas and her novel featured at the 2021 Auckland Writers' Festival as part of the Schools' Programme.

[15] In 2007, she received a New Zealand Mental Health Foundation Media Grant to write Walking to Africa, which was a finalist in the Ashton Wylie Book Awards.