Carolyn Redl

Carolyn recently retired after teaching CanLit, Arctic Women’s Narratives, and Creative Writing at universities in Alberta and B.C. She loves to travel and once spent over a year camping along the outermost roads of North America—her column, “Postcards Home,” in which she recorded these ventures appeared in The Edmonton Journal and other Southam newspapers. Pursuing a goal to fly to every country touched by the Arctic Circle, she has ventured to and written about northern places in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Norway.  She is currently works on a book that integrates stories of her northern experiences with flashbacks to those of other Arctic women who published books on their northern lives—and there are well over 200 of these accounts. “Seasons by the Salish Sea,”  her interpretation of the many seasonal events occurring in nature along our ever-changing coastline, is presently being considered for publication. Since publishing A Canadian Childhood, her memoir about growing up in northern Saskatchewan during the mid-20th century, she has been facilitating writing workshops to encourage others to write about their childhoods.