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 luxury hotel near London, U.K. to co-directing the Port Eliot Festival literary celebration in Cornwall. Enjoyed an early life as the chief sub-editor of the Telegraph Magazine in London and chief features editor of the Vancouver Sun. As a freelancer, have tucked into nearly 100 lunches with British Columbia’s business titans for BCBusiness’ Lunch with Lucy column (without giving interviewees indigestion). Created radio pieces for Monocle 24, as well as a children’s bear book for Heckfield and numerous travel and fitness guides, and written for the Telegraph, Globe and Mail, Montecristo, and National Geographic Traveller. Teach skiing and yoga, but still awful on the piano despite years of practice…