About

Born and raised in Montreal, with a strong sense of blue-collar values, I have also lived in Tokyo and Victoria.  I earned a Humanities Diploma and BFA in nonfiction writing (both from UVic night classes) while working for 25 years as a systems analyst. As a celebration of turning 65, I completed an MFA from UKings School of Journalism (Dalhousie). For fun along the way, I also studied Peace Research and Norwegian Literature at the U of Oslo; and Japanese language at Takushoku U in Tokyo. I am a twelve-year member of the Writer’s Union of Canada (TWUC) and the author of Ted Grant: Sixty Years of Legendary Photojournalism (Heritage House 2013) – a book I wrote to honour a hard-working Canadian artist.

As a freelance writer, I have been widely published in newspapers and magazines; among them The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Reader’s Digest, CBC.ca, THIS magazine, the Blind Canadian and the Tyee. (If you are interested in my research and reading strategy, please check out this link to an article I wrote as a guest of Jane Friedman, American publishing expert.)

My husband Daryl and I enjoy reading and writing and living on Vancouver Island in Canada. We have enjoyed a decade of volunteering with The Canadian Federation of the Blind (CFB). Listening to Blind Canadians, a short video we produced as part of our volunteer work, is an interview I conducted with CFB friends. We made the seven-minute clip as a sizzle reel (promotional tool) to help find funding and a producer interested in making a larger documentary of the same name. No luck yet!