Masa Takei
Our team Masa got an MBA from McGill, bought a suit, and worked on management consulting projects spanning 15 countries. He grew out the hair, bought a chainsaw, and built a rustic cabin on Haida Gwaii. The yearlong digital-media series Masa Off Grid was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. He wrote features and cover […]
Melissa Edwards
Our team Melissa got her start in the storytelling world at Geist in the late 1990s, which led to her taking over the magazine’s regular “pretend cartographer” feature and, eventually, to very fun projects like The Geist Atlas of Canada (a “collection of strange cartographies”) and a decade spent managing the notorious 3-Day Novel Contest […]
Michael Harris
Our team Michael Harris Writer Michael Harris is the bestselling author of three books of nonfiction: The End of Absence, Solitude, and All We Want. He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award and his work has been shortlisted for numerous other prizes. His essays have appeared in dozens of publications, including Esquire, […]
Michael White
Our team Former senior/managing editor of Vancouver, Glow, and FASHION magazines. Author of the music biography Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records (Bloomsbury), named one of the 20 best books of 2015 by Record Collector magazine and named Book of the Year in the category Historical Recorded Sound Research in Record Labels by […]
Mickey Goodman
Our team Mickey Goodman Writer Mickey has published over 500 articles in Thomson-Reuters, People magazine, Veranda, Southern Living, Canadian Architecture & Design, Holmes, CURE (American Cancer Society), PEDS (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Women’s Wear Daily, Atlanta magazine, Points North and others. She is active in the Atlanta Press Club and sits on the board of […]
Pamela Swanigan
Our team Professional writer since the age of 18. Published in Saturday Night, the Toronto Star, the Chicago Tribune, Canadian Living, and Vancouver magazine, among many others. Winner of two National Magazine Awards (for a co-authored article) and two-time finalist at the Western Magazine Awards. Third-place winner of ARC’s international poetry contest for “How to […]
Paul McLaughlin
Our team Paul teaches Professional Writing at York University. One of Canada’s foremost interviewing trainers, he is the author of Asking the Best Questions: A comprehensive interviewing handbook for journalists, podcasters, bloggers, vloggers, influencers, and anyone who asks questions under pressure. His writing career has produced more than a dozen books, several plays and countless […]
Pete McCormack
Our team Shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2010 for the feature documentary Facing Ali. Created, directed and produced HBO TV docu-series Sports on Fire. Directed feature film I Am Bruce Lee, which broke audience viewing records on Spike TV. Wrote and co-directed documentary Uganda Rising, which was narrated by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey […]
Sue Montgomery
Our team Sue was a print journalist for 30 years at Toronto Star, Canadian Press, Gemini News Service in London and Montreal Gazette. She covered everything from the Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakia to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, to post-genocide Rwanda. She has won awards from Amnesty International, Beyond Borders, Canadian Institutes for […]
Tom Hawthorn
Our team Author of three nonfiction books. Contributor to more than two dozen books by the Society for American Baseball Research. More than 40 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist with bylines in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Reader’s Digest, Canadian Geographic, Toronto Life and many more. Speechwriter for a British […]