Alina Tugend
Our team Started my journalism career with United Press International in Rhode Island, then moved on to various newspapers around the country as a staff reporter. Received a fellowship for journalists to study for a year at Yale Law School, culminating in a Master of Studies in Law. Worked as a correspondent in London writing […]
John Lawrence Reynolds
Our team John has degrees in English & Psychology. He operated his own ad agency business for several years, peppered with a range of other pursuits – music, travel and sports photography, film & video directing, on-air radio host. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 fiction and non-fiction books, including several best-sellers, working […]
Curtis Gillespie
Our team Wrote five books of fiction and non-fiction, as well as somewhere north of 100 magazine articles. Won seven National Magazine Awards, including a record-tying four in 2014. Co-founded and edited Eighteen Bridges magazine, winner of 14 National Magazine Awards. Received University of Alberta Alumni Honour Award 2015. Six-word memoir Underpromised, overdelivered, left the […]
David Hayes
Our team David has won multiple awards, published three nonfiction books and ghostwritten, co-written or edited ten more (autobiographies, memoirs and company histories). His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in major publications, among them Saturday Night, Report on Business, the New York Times Magazine, the Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, Chatelaine, the Walrus, enRoute, […]
Gary Ross
Our team Editor-in-chief of Vancouver magazine, 2006 – 2012. Founding partner of the book publisher Macfarlane Walter & Ross. His journalism has been honoured with half a dozen National Magazine Awards. Wrote the bestseller Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony. Wrote the screenplay of the feature film Owning Mahowny, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Six-word […]
Gordon Pitts
Our team Married 50 years to the same patient woman; two wonderful daughters and two much loved grandchildren. Winner of the 2009 National Business Book Award for Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite. My 2020 book, Unicorn in the Woods, How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game […]
Guy Saddy
Our team A true generalist, Guy writes on everything from pop culture to urban anthropology. His work has appeared in the Walrus, National Geographic Traveler, Elle Canada and enRoute. His writing has appeared in three anthologies, including Best Food Writing 2008. Six-word memoir He tried. Then he tried again. Favourite book One Flew Over the […]
Katie Nanton
Our team Katie was the managing editor of NUVO, Canada’s premier lifestyle magazine, for a decade. She visited more than 75 destinations on assignment for travel articles and interviewed luminaries such as Michael Ondaatje in Mexico City and director James Cameron in New York. Six-word memoir Skydived against doctor’s orders; no regrets. Favourite book Out […]
Larry Krotz
Our team Larry Krotz Writer A writer and documentary filmmaker, Larry has worked with PBS, the National Film Board of Canada, the National Post, Saturday Night and the Globe & Mail. He trains the next generation of documentarians at the University of Winnipeg and Ryerson University. His latest book Piecing the Puzzle unlocks the fascinating history […]
Lucy Hyslop
Our team Jumped into the Arctic Ocean from an ice floe wearing only a swimsuit, and won Destination Canada’s top travel story for reliving hyperthermia in word. Not afraid to leap into curious roles, either—from curating a series of eclectic events including a cultural exchange with Frances McDormand and Joel Coen at Heckfield Place, a […]
