Contributors
Heather Ramsay (reporter) is an award-winning community reporter, photographer and creative writer who lives in Queen Charlotte City. She is deeply intrigued by lives and landscapes—past, present and future—swirling around British Columbia’s Northwest.
Ev Bishop, a columnist with the Terrace Standard, freelances for a variety of publications. If her nose isn’t in a book, and her fingers aren’t on her keyboard, she’s playing with her kids or hanging out at the lake.
Russell Bowers lives in Prince Rupert and works as a CBC Radio host. He has no real friends—just online ones.
Betsy Trumpener is a fiction writer and CBC Radio news reporter. She lives outside Prince George with her family. Betsy’s Northword column was awarded a 2007 Western Canada Magazine Award for Best Column or Regular Feature. Even more recently, Betsy won the 2007 Jack Webster Journalism Award for Best Radio Feature.
Ted Widen, a born-and-raised BC northerner, recently made a move to the Netherlands but still calls the Bulkley Valley home. A high school teacher for 15 years, and always an outdoors person, his leisure pursuits of photography and writing have now become a significant part of his life.
Tracy Morton is a family physician on Haida Gwaii. His philosophy of care is to equip people with the best available information to make health decisions that are right for them. Besides medicine, his interests include kayaking, climbing, cooking, travel, yoga and hanging out with his family.
Jen Brubacher lives in Terrace and trains to be a librarian when she isn’t writing books. She lived in Scotland for a few years and tries to visit the UK whenever possible for “research.” She’s currently writing a novel about an international spy co-operative.
Hans Saefkow is an award-winning editorial cartoonist, illustrator and set designer. If you see this man, do not approach him, feed him, or listen to his idle chatter. It is simply best not to encourage him.
Julie Chaplin is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. Born and raised in Ontario, she now resides in northern BC with her new family. With her pure love for life, you can find Julie painting, drawing, meditating and enjoying the great outdoors.
Rob Sturney has lived in New Hazelton since 1981 and has taught at Hazelton High since 1994. He is fanatical about cycling, coffee and travel, especially if he can enjoy them all simultaneously.
Jane Stevenson, born by the Atlantic and raised by the Pacific, has lived in the Bulkley Valley for eight years. She presently resides on an acreage near Telkwa with her husband and two little girls.
Facundo Gastiazoro is a freelance designer who focuses on logos, posters, layout and illustrations. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Facundo is currently living in Smithers. His illustrations appear in every issue of Northword Magazine.
Charlynn Toews has been in printing and publishing since 1985, and is currently selling fancy printers, copiers and scanners across northwest BC. She has published in daily and weekly newspapers, national magazines, and loves a good regional. She writes a regular column for Northword from her home in Terrace.
Sarah Artis, a greedily curious freelance writer who moved north tp Terrace in 2006 to escape city fashion and general chaos. She is the recent winner of a CIDA award that will send her to Rwanda and Mozambique in February 2008 to report on development issues.
Taylor Bachrach rides a little bus from his home in Telkwa to his office in Smithers, where he works as a communications consultant specializing in progressively minded organizations. He likes black coffee, deep snow, and various colors of brown.
Gail Cort, after retiring from competitive rowing (three-time Olympian), lived in New Zealand where she ran a fitness and lifestyle coaching business, coached sports, and raised three sons. She recently moved to Houston BC, where she is enjoying the northern lifestyle, the people, and the SNOW!
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