Lesley Buxton is the author of the award-winning memoir, One Strong Girl: Surviving the Unimaginable – A Mother’s Memoir. Her essays have appeared in Hazlitt, Today’s Parent, Still Standing, This Magazine, and in the Caitlin Press anthology, Love Me True. An excerpt of One Strong Girl appeared in the March 2019 issue of Reader’s Digest and has been translated into Spanish. For 18 years, she ran her own business, travelling around Ottawa and western Quebec teaching theatre and creative writing to children and teens. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. To learn more about her, visit http://www.slesleybuxton.com.
Sue Harper loves museums. From large urban museums like the State Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia to the tiny Kurow Museum on Te Waipounamu, the south island of New Zealand, she finds treasures everywhere she goes. She has learned that just looking at an object or a belonging is never enough. Finding the story behind what’s on a shelf, hanging in a display case or hidden in a drawer is what makes visiting a museum so much fun. Sue has co-authored ten textbooks and has written three books for reluctant readers. Her writing can also be found in magazines in Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. To learn more, visit http://seniornomad.wordpress.com.
My name is Ava Rose Louie. I am ten years old. In height, I’m 4 foot 7. My gender is she/her and my favourite game is basketball and what I hope to become is a singer/actor/basketball player. I live in Oliver BC and I’m from Oliver and something I like doing in my free time is basketball/shopping. I like being active and all the sports I do are basketball, (personally my fav) soccer, track, volleyball, gymnastics, archery, ultimate frisbee, snowboarding, biking, swimming and I did dance when I was younger. A goal I hope to achieve is going to the WNBA to play basketball. My fav place I’ve been is to Edmonton and a place I wanna go is Disneyland. A thing that brings me joy is my family. My fav tv show is the Babysitter’s Club. A fact about me is that I’m a competitive basketball player. I’m OIB and Indian. My fav food is Shepherd’s pie and my fav candy is lollypops and some extra things about me is that I’m weird, caring funny and crazy and also love basketball and have brown eyes, hair and skin. I’m also a passionate speaker and speller. I’m an Indigenous fancy powwow dancer and I love to read and like skincare and playing with makeup. I love all my friends and finally I have two cats named Reny and Charlie. Thank you for staying to get to know about me.