Marjorie Simmins
Marjorie Simmins is the author of Coastal Lives, a memoir about living on Canada’s East and West Coasts (Pottersfield Press, 2014), and Year of the Horse (PP, 2016). Simmins began her thirty-year career as a freelance journalist in Vancouver, appearing regularly in the Vancouver Sun and writing for trade magazines. She also published numerous essays and articles in magazines and newspapers across Canada, and in the United States, and has stories in many Canadian anthologies. She has won a Gold Medal at the National Magazine Awards and another Gold Medal at the Atlantic Journalism Awards for the best Atlantic Magazine Article. Memoir: Conversations and Craft is Simmins’ third nonfiction book, published by Pottersfield Press.