Betty Keller has lived in Vancouver, BC’s Fraser Valley, the Okanagan and Kootenay areas, as well as in Nigeria. She taught in BC secondary schools, at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. A founding member of the SunCoast Writers Forge, she was the producer of the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts and the Sunshine Coast Writers-in-Residence Program for 12 years. Author and co-author of sixteen books of non-fiction and fiction, Betty has been the recipient of many awards, including The Canadian Biography Award (1980), The Lescarbot Award (1991), The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal (2002), The Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award (2003), and The Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (2005). Please visit quintessentialwriters.com/keller.