§ BETSY TRUMPENER

Betsy Trumpener is an award-winning CBC News reporter, writer and radio documentary producer. She has lived in Iowa, Israel, Alberta, Ontario, Bavaria and the Black Forest. She now lives with her family between a wild swamp and a pipeline in northern British Columbia, where she covers the daily drama of British Columbia's interior. Her first book, The Butcher of Penetang was a shortlist finalist for both the ReLit award and the Writers Union of Canada Danute Gleed Literary Award for best English-language collection of short fiction. She has just been awarded a BC Arts Council grant to start her next book.

Trumpener's non-fiction and fiction writing have been published in the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, This Magazine, NOW Magazine, Monday Magazine, the Malahat Review, Event, the Queen Street Quarterly, Northword and filling Station. She was the first annual writer in residence for the CBC weekend arts show, North By Northwest, and she has been awarded a Western Magazine Award for her column, "North of Unreal," a Jack Webster Award for Best Radio Feature, and a Jack Webster Africa Journalism Fellowship. The Butcher of Penetang is her first book. She lives in Prince George, British Columbia.

Betsy Trumpener gave two free readings on the islands:

· July 30 in Queen Charlotte at Howler's: a literary extravaganza with Michael Turner

· August 7 at the Edge of the World Music Festival