Leon Rooke was born in 1934 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. He moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1969 and then to Ontario in 1987. Rooke has taught English and creative writing at several universities and lives in Eden Mills, Ontario.
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- 1968
- Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed (short stories and novella)
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- 1973
- Vault (short stories)
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- 1973
- Krokodile (play)
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- 1974
- Sword/Play (play)
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- 1977
- The Broad Back of the Angel (short stories)
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- 1977
- The Love Parlour (short stories)
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- 1980
- Cry Evil (short stories)
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- 1980
- Fat Woman (novel)
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- 1981
- Death Suite (short stories)
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- 1981
- The Magician in Love (novel)
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- 1983
- Shakespeare's Dog (novel)
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- 1982
- The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta (short stories)
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- 1984
- Sing Me No Love Songs I'll Say You No Prayers: Selected Stories (short stories)
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- 1984
- A Bolt of White Cloth (short stories)
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- 1984
- Ms. America (play)
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- 1989
- How I Saved the Province (short stories and novella)
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- 1989
- A Good Baby (novel)
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- 1991
- Daddy Stump (short story)
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- 1991
- The Happiness of Others (short stories and novella)
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- 1991
- The Coming (play)
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- 1992
- Who Do You Love? (short stories)
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- 1993
- The Boy from Moogradi and the Woman with the Map to Kolooltopec (short story)
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- 1995
- Muffins (short story)
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- 1996
- Oh, No, I Have Not Seen Molly (chapbook)
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- 1997
- Art. Three Fictions in Prose (short stories)
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- 1997
- Oh! Twenty-seven Stories (short stories and novella)
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- 1998
- Who Goes There (novel)
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- 2000
- The Fall of Gravity (novel)
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- 2001
- Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke (short stories)
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- 2005
- Balduchi's Who's Who (novella)
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- 2005
- Hot Poppies (poetry)
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- 2005
- The Beautiful Wife (novel)
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- 2007
- Hitting the Charts
- Selected Stories
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- 2009
- The Last Shot
- Eleven Stories and a Novella
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- 2010
- Pope And Her Lady
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- 2012
- Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow
- Acts of Kamikaze Fiction
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- 2013
- The April Poems
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