contributors
Contributors
Heather Ramsay is an award-winning community reporter, photographer and creative writer who recently relocated to Queen Charlotte City from Smithers. She is deeply intrigued by lives and landscapes—past, present and future—swirling around British Columbia’s northwest. Heather welcomes your story ideas at heather @ northword.ca.
Larissa Ardis is a Smithers-based freelance writer and communications specialist who works for newspapers, magazines, radio, organizations and businesses. When not slinging words, she’s often found chasing inspiration in musical environments, mountain trails, or her unruly garden. Contact her at larissa @ northword.ca.
Nick Beatty is a visual artist who teaches filmmaking, digital art and photography at Smithers Secondary School. His paintings and photographs have appeared at the BC Festival of the Arts and in local galleries and can be found at www.rawumber.com.
Sheila Peters, who lives just outside of Smithers, travelled to Guatemala to do research for the novel she is currently working on. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in Canadian journals; Canyon Creek: a script (1998) and Tending the Remnant Damage (2001) are available through local bookstores.
Tanya Davidson is a self-described “major left-brainer” whose teaching experience has spanned from Hazelton to Houston. An enthusiast of casual recreation, fun games, and all and sundry silly activities, she seeks to integrate creativity and learning into all aspects of life.
Facundo Gastiazoro is a freelance designer who focuses on logos, posters, layout and illustration. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Facundo is currently living in Smithers. His illustrations will appear regularly in northword magazine.
Betsy Trumpener is CBC Radio’s northern news reporter and the summer host of CBC’s Daybreak morning show. Her short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies, and she was the 2003/2004 writer in residence on CBC’s arts show, North by Northwest. Betsy lives outside of Prince George.
Graham Roumieu is an author/illustrator who has contributed to publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s and a bazillion other things. His book, The Autobiography of Bigfoot, was released May 2003. Graham lives in Toronto and grew up in Smithers. His cartoon is a regular feature of this magazine.
Doug Donaldson, lives and works in Hazelton on the Gitxsan traditional territories. He is a municipal councillor and works as a community developer with Storytellers’ Foundation, a non-profit non-governmental organization.
Sarah Zimmerman is a freelance writer, journalist, photographer and super-mom based in Terrace, BC. When she’s not writing or seeing life through a lens, she can be found playing in the mountains of the beautiful Skeena Valley.
Aleila Miller is a structural integration practitioner, activist, artist and Special Olympics coach. Locally and internationally, she has dedicated her life’s work to ending violence. She continues to be inspired by the courageous people she has come to work with and know.
Behind the scenes
Cooped up behind one yellow and one red door in the old post office in Smithers, is the team behind northword magazine. Burning the midnight oil is publisher/editor Lottie Wengelin, former editor of The Interior News. Drumming up all the business is sales & marketing manager Laurie Kallio, former news director at BVLD, and sales representative with Standard Radio in Terrace. And Sandra Smith, owner of BC DesignWorks, is the creative mastermind.
Charlynn Toews has been in the print industry since 1985. A writer turned ad seller extraordinarie, she has published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Canadian Aviation and the Halifax Daily News, to name a few. Based in Terrace, she is the north coast ad rep for Prince Rupert, Terrace and Kitimat.
Jennifer Harvey is a teacher by trade, but has also worked as a treeplanter, surveyor, jeweller, weaver, bookseller and musician—among other things. An avid reader and promotor of northwestern B.C., she drums up advertising business to her own great beat in Prince George.
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