She has authored several publications, including "Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16," "Frontlines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia," "Geographies of a Lover," "Skeena," and "Where it Hurts."
A native of British Columbia, she grew up in Duncan, on the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) and Terrace.
In 2009, de Leeuw won the CBC Literary Award for creative non-fiction with "Columbus Burning",[2] and placed second the following year with "Quick-quick.
In fall 2015, Caitlin Press published Skeena,[4] a single poetic narrative spanning more than ninety pages that is an elegy to and celebration of British Columbia's second-longest river, one at the centre of contemporary conversations about resource extraction and northern geographies.
In spring 2017, NeWest Press published Where it Hurts,[5] a collection of creative non-fiction pieces primarily focused on the difficulties of living in small communities in the B.C.