Host: Shelley Youngblut
Shelley Youngblut has created magazines for ESPN, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Nickelodeon in the U.S., as well as in Calgary, where she was the founding editor of SWERVE.
She has won over 65 national, regional and international magazine awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award. The author of three sports books, she’s been the pop culture columnist for Canada AM and ABC World News Now and is frequently unconventional on CBC Radio’s The Eyeopener. She is writing a memoir about daddy issues and a gambling problem (his and potentially hers).
At Wordfest, Younblut hosts the events listed below: