YUKON STORY LAUREATE.
Growing up in Whitehorse and Dawson City, Yukon, I worked as a journalist, sewer rat, truck driver, heavy equipment operator, expediter, prospector, public relations director, motion picture theatre owner, financial advisor and in 2009, retired to become a full-time writer. Graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1976 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
In 1997 I received the Yukon Commissioner's Award for community work. In 2009, Rotary International (of which I am not a member) presented me with a Paul Harris Fellowship for my work in researching my 2010 book, Better Than A Cure: One Man's Journey to Free the World of Polio. I was awarded the 2019 Yukon Heritage Award for my writing about Yukon history.
One Mush: Jamaica's Dog Sled Team was an award winning finalist at the 2011 International Book Awards and shortlisted for the Writer's Digest Best Self-Published Book Award in 2011.
In 2019, Caribou Hotel: Hauntings, hospitality, a hunter and the parrot received a Reviewers Choice Award from Reader Views.
North Star: The Legacy of Jean-Marie Mouchet was a winner of the ULLR Award from the International Ski History Association (an outstanding contribution of global interest to the history of the sport in a published form) in 2025 and a finalist in the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards.
Depends on the audience and the subject matter. Accompany some presentations with a 'slide' show, a film, or an individual who was a part of the story or process.
