Lana Starchuck

Lana Starchuck is an author, keynote speaker, record-holding formation skydiver, and resilience strategist who helps people lead with courage through uncertainty. As an author, she is a co-author for Global Voices Shaping the Future, a book featuring 31 leading international speakers, each sharing proven insights shaped by their field, culture, and lived experience. Her next book, When Your Parachute Fails and Other Success Stories, is forthcoming in 2026. Her first book, Moving Parts (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015) is a short story collection that was shortlisted for the ReLit Awards. Her work has appeared in Geist, Little Bird Stories: Volumes I and II, Taddle Creek, and ELLE Canada. She won the Random House of Canada Creative Writing Award at the University of Toronto in 2012 and was longlisted for the 2014 CBC Short Story Prize. She is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada and the Toronto Women's Writing Salon. Lana has taught for Sarah Selecky Writing School and the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. She is an alumna of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and is a regular contributor to Parachutist Magazine and CanPara Magazine.