Trina Moyles is an environmental journalist, creative producer, and author. Her debut book, Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World (2018) was a finalist for the High Plains Literary Awards and is currently being adapted into a documentary film. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest (2021), a memoir about her work as a fire tower lookout in northwestern Alberta, won a National Outdoor Book Award and the inaugural Memoir Award at the Alberta Literary Awards. In 2022, Moyles received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the province’s highest honour for the arts, for her dedication to writing. Moyles’s journalism has been widely published in Canadian Geographic, The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, and Hakai, among other publications. Today, she lives in Whitehorse, Yukon with her partner and their three dogs.
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