Leo Yerxa is a Canadian visual artist, medallist, and writer.
As an illustrator of children's picture books he won the Governor General's Award in 2006.
[2] Yerxa was born in 1947 on the Little Eagle Reserve, Couchiching First Nation, in northwestern Ontario.
Yerxa began publishing poetry and participating in group art shows in the 1970s, and had his first one-man gallery show at the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art, entitled "Renegade: The Art of Leo Yerxa",[3] 1984.
[4] Yerxa is the author or several books for children, including the critically acclaimed Ancient Thunder.