Leigh Anne Williams is a Toronto-based freelance writer. She has worked as a reporter for the Canadian bureau of TIME Magazine. Her freelance articles have also appeared on TIME.com and in The Toronto Star, The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax), The Daily News (Halifax), THIS Magazine, and Canadian Forum. She has also worked as a copy editor at The Halifax Herald, The Globe and Mail, The Bay Street Bull, and as news editor of Quill & Quire.

Highlights in her career have included interviewing former prime minister Jean Chrétien, former Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, Canadian soldier Paul Franklin, business leader Frank Stronach, musicians Leonard Cohen and Anjani Thomas, dancer Rex Harrington, comedian Scott Thompson, and many Canadian authors such as  Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Thomas King, Vincent Lam, Marina Nemat, Stevie Cameron, and Nelofer Pazira.

Her work has also provided opportunities to report on the work of a broad range of Canadians -  physicists, cancer researchers, neuroradiologists, nurses,  peace activists, environmentalists, imams, civil rights activists, book publishers and editors, and academics studying Islam, First Nations issues, and the Canadian health care system.