I stumbled into a writing career when I made a stop in Hay River, NWT, in January, 1979, during a cross-Canada hitchhiking journey. I had all my worldly possessions in a knapsack on my back, was broke and in need of a job. This materialized as soon as the publisher of the Hay River Tapwe newspaper found out I could type and hired me as a trainee reporter.
I fell in love with writing about the North and worked at various newspapers and magazines. I never quite made it back to the road. I moved to Yellowknife, grew up, got married and settled in an off-grid cabin at Prelude Lake where I lived with my husband and my dogs for 22 years and began a career as a freelance writer. From 2010 to 2014, I served as Exective Director of the NorthWords NWT, a northern literary organization with which I still maintain close ties. 
Ever since I began writing for newspapers and magazines, I had published creative non-fiction in the form of funny personal columns. In 2010, I published a collection of these columns in my first book iceberg tea, under my own imprint Prelude Books. 
My first novel Free Love was published in November, 2015.