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Jim Elliot was born in a coal-mining town. He attended eleven different schools as his family moved from mining camp to mining camp. Following six years at the University of Alberta, Jim graduated and was ordained as a United Church minister. The next forty years were split between Alberta and British Columbia as he worked in rural areas, suburbs, First Nations communities and finally as head of a large inner-city mission in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. On retirement he moved to the Sunshine Coast, spent some time volunteering with the local hospice community and then joined a writing group. He and his wife, Geniene, have five children and eight delightful grandchildren.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Michael Frimer attended medical school at the University of Toronto before accepting an internship in general surgery at Vancouver General Hospital, where he became the youngest surgeon in Canada at the time, at age 29. Frimer is an award-winning dark room and large format photographer, with an avid curiosity and desire to tell stories through the process of creativity, often using his images to explore moments captured in time and to observe life as a series of overlapping dimensions that one must look beyond to see life’s bigger picture. He has sung with the University of Toronto choir, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Cantata singers in Vancouver. A respected surgeon for over 50 years, Frimer retired from practice in 2018.
Eric Wickham was born in the small BC coastal fishing village of Bamfield in 1942. For fifty years he was active in BC’s fishing industry as a commercial fisherman and as an advocate for commercial fishermen in their struggle with big government. He is past president of the Pacific Blackcod Association, the Fishermen’s Abalone Association and the Halibut Fishermen’s Association, and is a past member of the Ministry of Fisheries Advisory Council. He is now retired and lives in Western Australia but returns to British Columbia regularly.
Nico Roselli was born and grew up in Vancouver, BC. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2019 with his BA, where he majored in political science and minored in the Law and Society program. A two-time member of the President’s Honour Society in high school, he is also a recipient of the Brother J.P. Keane General Excellence Award.
Since writing Hitting Your Stride, Roselli has begun to explore a career in teaching. He currently works in Vancouver schools as a Teacher On Call (TOC). His next goal is to attend Simon Fraser University to complete the Professional Development Program for aspiring elementary and secondary school teachers. A devoted lover of sports and coffee, Roselli can be found cheering on his teams with his peers and frequenting the local cafés and pubs of Vancouver. He plans to continue writing, in both fiction and non-fiction genres.
Gianni Kovacevic has spent over a decade honing his passion for investing in the new spending class. A proponent of realistic environmentalism, he is fascinated by how growth in emerging markets impacts the global economy, environment, and our daily lives. He has brought audiences around the world a deeper understanding of this army of new consumers and the science that makes their unstoppable ascent possible.
Robert Harvey lives on Denman Island, one of the Gulf Islands on the Pacific Coast. Relying on his own sense of the Sea gained in teenage years on coastal towboats, he wrote this story following retirement after 54 years as a courtroom lawyer. He is an Honorary Member of the CMMC (The Company of Master Mariners of Canada) Vancouver Island Division.
Colin Castle was born in England in 1936 and after army service in Berlin, studied history at Oxford and became a teacher. In 1964, he and his Canadian wife, Val, married in London but came to raise their children in BC, where he taught history in West Kelowna schools for thirty years. This book is the story of Val’s grandfather, the one she never knew.
Born and raised in Sicily, Italy, Santo Mignosa studied clay in several Italian institutions after working for his father creating commercial roof tiles and bricks.
Arriving in Canada in the 1950s, Mignosa continued his studies, entered numerous national and international exhibitions and embarked upon a distinctive teaching career at the University of British Columbia’s Kootenay School of Art and at the University of Calgary. He was an active participant in national and provincial ceramic organizations and regularly presented workshops for ceramic groups and local schools.
In his mid-eighties, Mignosa continues his sculptural and drawing practice at Art in the Country in Aldergrove, British Columbia. Amid an ark of animals big and small, Santo is currently investigating the abundance of flora and fauna on a country farm that inspires and nurtures. Here he shares his life with Susan Gorris, a painter and sculptor.
Author:
Michael Dupuis is a retired history teacher, consultant and author. For nearly 50 years, his writing has focused on the role played by journalists in historical events. His previous non-fiction works focus on the Winnipeg General Strike and the Halifax explosion. Michael holds a BA in English and an MA in Canadian History from the University of Ottawa and a BEd from the University of Toronto. This is his first novel.
Illustrator:
Michael Kluckner is an artist and the author of illustrated books including memoirs on farming, a sketchbook of Canada’s culture landscapes, detailed histories of British Columbia, Vancouver and Toronto, and the graphic novel Toshiko about the Japanese-Canadian experience during World War II.
