Stella's Journey is the third volume in Canadian poet John Lee's Highgate Trilogy. The first two volumes, Hired Hands and Variations on Herb, both received the prestigious Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award. This third volume, from which several poems were shortlisted for the Sandburg Livesay Poetry Award and the 1998 Canadian Literary Award, is written in the style of a biography. Lee tells the simple story of a shopkeeper's daughter, born in 1885, who goes on to endure the hardships of two wars, the flu epidemic and the Great Depression.