Contributors
Larissa Ardis is a Smithers-based freelance writer and communications consultant. When not slinging words, images and sound, she’s often found chasing inspiration on mountain trails or trying to restore the accordion’s image as a cool instrument to play.
Heather Ramsay 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.
Melanie Watts has skied Powder King and the surrounding mountains for 10 years. Her writing has appeared in many magazines as well as on the Internet. Currently Melanie and her husband are building a log house, but that doesn’t stop her from enjoying the local spring skiing.
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.
Betsy Trumpener is a CBC Radio reporter and fiction writer. Her most recent publication is the short story Blowtorch, published in the anthology Letting Go. She’s a recent winner of a Jack Webster/CIDA fellowship to travel and report from East Africa. She lives with her family outside Prince George.
Shannon Finnegan is an anthropologist, mountaineer, wife and mother (in reverse order of priority). She moved to Smithers for its lifestyle and the opportunity to ski on good snow. She is thrilled to be exploring new mountains and loves all of the hiking opportunities in the North.
Dave Havard is the author of Gardening Between Frosts. Although born in Comox, Vancouver Island, he has had ample opportunity to learn the challenges of northern cultivation during his more than five decades in Smithers. In this issue of Northword, he shares some of his tricks of the trade.
Frances Riley is a part-time writer, part-time musician and full-time outdoor addict living in sunny Prince Rupert. Raised on a sailboat and currently apprenticing in the mountains, Frances loves singing—and writing—northern B.C.’s praises
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Alisa Smith, a contributing editor for Vancouver Magazine and a correspondent for Explore, is a freelance writer whose work has also appeared in Outside, Canadian Geographic, TheTyee.ca, and other publications. She is based in Vancouver and spends her summers in Dorreen.
Sarah Zimmerman is a freelance writer, journalist, photographer and a super-mom based in Terrace. When she’s not writing or seeing life through a lens, she can be found playing in the mountains and surrounding areas of the beautiful Skeena Valley.
J.B. MacKinnon is a contributing editor-of-sorts to the magazines Adbusters, Explore and Vancouver. His first book, Dead Man in Paradise, was published in October by Douglas & McIntyre. He claims to have driven every major and secondary highway in British Columbia.
Graham Roumieu is an author/illustrator who has contributed to publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s and a bazillion other things. He has published two books about Bigfoot and A Really Super Book About Squirrels. Graham lives in Toronto but grew up in Smithers.
Steve Ogle lives in Nelson, B.C. He’s a biologist who got into a habit of exploring remote and all-too-often inhospitable regions of the planet. He says, “I’m not really into self-abuse, I just like to be outside.” If that can be in northern B.C.—so much better, as his photographs in this issue show.
Anastasia Ledwon is a hobby farmer, writer, geologist, avid reader and philanthropic researcher who loves singing. She lives off the grid outside of Quick with her nine animals and slow-to-be-renovated home. As a jack-of-all-trades herself, she here writes about the change of northern professions.
Charlynn Toews has been in the publishing industry since 1985, most recently as the North Coast ad rep for Northword. She has published in daily and weekly newspapers, national magazines, and loves a good quarterly,
joining us as a regular columnist from her home in Terrace.
Mariah McCooey is a born-and-bred British Columbian, having lived in various places on the coast. For the past two years she lived on Haida Gwaii, where she worked for the QCI Observer as a reporter. She is now working on a sail training ship based out of Victoria and doing some freelance writing.
Kathy Ehman is an independent journalist. Escaped from industrial Sarnia, Ontario, trained and polished in agricultural P.E.I., she then turned around and followed her heart west to Lax Kw’alaams, where she kick-started Eagle Eye Media Services.
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Allison Gillies is an aspiring journalist who currently teaches English in Seoul, Korea. Last fall she tried out living in northern B.C.—and a true northern profession that you can read about here. A long way from her hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she enjoys life in the mountains.
Kathleen Cherry spends time with her daughters and husband, when not writing about shopping. She works at two of Kitimat’s elementary schools as district counsellor. Her work has been published in many magazines including Easy Living, B.C. Woman, Woman, Island Parent and Teacher.
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