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Engineer Linda Lefler pursuing MFA in fiction

Forty years after earning her industrial engineering degree at Dal, Linda Lefler (BEng'85) returned to pursue an MFA in Fiction at King’s. Exploring how engineers are portrayed in literature, she's been inspired by a former mentor with shared connections — who may even get a cameo in a future novel.

Posted: July 9, 2025

In 2025, 40 years after graduating with her industrial engineering degree, Linda Lefler (BEng'85) enrolled to take a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction at the University of King's College. She is especially interested in the portrayal of engineers in fiction, which she finds can be at odds with the well-rounded and multi-talented people with whom she has studied and worked.

In Linda's words: I was touched when I went to classes at King's and found myself in the G. Peter Wilson Student Faculty Common Room in the New Academic Building. Peter Wilson (BEng'62) was the popular Head of Industrial Engineering when I was a student, and he was known as a teacher, mentor, businessman, and a person who built bridges between educational and industrial communities. It turns out, he attended King's while doing his Certificate of Applied Science before he went to TUNS (now аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±). It felt fitting to learn and workshop creative writing close to the portrait of my former teacher, also a multidisciplinary engineer. Maybe he'll get a cameo in my novel.