I have always been a lover of the written word. A voracious reader from an early age, I decided to put that love to the test when I began writing my first novel in 1998. With two novels and numerous writing courses behind me I was approached to write a parenting column for the Medicine Hat News and soon thereafter my journalism career came to life.

 

While acting as the Newspaper’s ‘Newspapers in Education (NIE) Coordinator’, I got a deeper understanding of the machinations of journalism, and soon started doing freelance work for the paper, its additional niche publications and a number of corporate clients. Work that additionally saw me awarded recognition by the Canadian Community Newspaper Association in the category of Outstanding Reporter Initiative for my 5-part series entitled, Prairie Problem: Needing the Drug Fix, published in 2007 in the Prairie Post, and by the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association Awards in 2008 for Best Post-Secondary Education Story or Series of Stories, and again in 2011 for the "Best Saskatchewan Cultural Story" (see Newsworthy tab).

 

As the scope and quantity of my freelance work increased, I made the decision to take the leap into a full-time freelance career – and have never looked back. Not only does freelancing give me a wide breadth and span of projects to work on, it also gives me an opportunity to stretch my writing abilities and meet interesting and amazing people from all walks of life who have equally interesting and amazing stories to tell.

 

Born in Montreal, and raised in Edmonton, I have also spent some quality time living and working in Inuvik, NWT where my position with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs gave me an opportunity to explore regions even further afield in the uppermost regions of the globe where few have dared to venture. Following my Arctic adventures I then spent the next 13 years in Medicine Hat, and more recently have embarked on yet another adventure in the wilds of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, along with my husband Michael and my two children.

 

With interests that run the gamut from karate (in which I have attained a Black Belt), sailing, hiking, camping, reading, running and yoga, to a love of travel that has seen me in such places as Scotland, England, Holland, France, the Caribbean, Mexico and numerous places throughout North America, I am always on the lookout for good stories. A quest I hope will never end.