About us

Connie is an award-winning freelance journalist, creative writer, and Adult Basic Education Instructor from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her work is published in anthologies, magazines, including Prairie Fire, East Coast Living, Downhome, and The Muse, and online at CBC Newfoundland and Labrador. Connie is the recipient of a 2023 Arts and Letters Award for nonfiction.

Terry is a budding science fiction writer, freelance journalist, freelance food writer and former chef from Dover, Newfoundland and Labrador. As a journalist, he specializes in writing profile features, having interviewed the likes of CBC's Elamin Abdelmamoud, Jess Hutchinson and celebrated Canadian author, Steven Heighton. Proudly neurodivergent, Terry also volunteers his time as an autism advocate in rural Newfoundland, as well as within the board of directors of Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador (ASNL) and uses his works of fiction as a vehicle to encourage autism acceptance.

Lori dedicates her life to sharing a sense of place in Newfoundland through her company Food Culture Place, offering Cultural Food Residencies. Speaker, author, educator, and cultural food ambassador, she has been awarded the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for her food heritage cookbook. Lori is driven by a responsibility to the Island she calls home. www.foodcultureplace.ca | @foodcultureplace

Ritche is a photographer based in Portugal Cove — St. Philips and St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. He has worked as a graphic design artist for twenty-five years. Perez enjoys capturing moments in street photography, travel, portraits, events, landscape or structures. He enjoys documenting and capturing current culture and support, empowering and exposing our social issues of today. His interests include public space and people. @ritcheperez inbetweendays.ca

Gabby is a food and travel writer based in St. John’s, NL, her book Where We Ate chronicles the history of 150 restaurants across Canada. Follow her eating adventures on Instagram @gabbypeytoneats. Description goes here

Wendy Rose is a freelance journalist based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Focusing primarily on arts and lifestyles, Wendy's work has appeared in The Telegram, Saltwire, The Newfoundland Herald, Downhome Magazine, The Overcast, Secret East, CBC, CBC Arts, Quill & Quire, and many more. She is currently the Member Services & Communications Coordinator at WritersNL, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting literary arts in NL.

Danielle was born and raised in Saskatchewan, the province of living skies. It should be no surprise, then, that she has always been drawn to places with endless horizons and breathtaking space, finding “home” wherever she can watch the distant storms roll in with her husband and puppy. After living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and becoming the editor of Edible Vancouver Island, opportunity brought her to Canada’s other coast—and to Edible Newfoundland & Labrador, where she continues to find joy in connecting people with the stories of their land, food and community. When she’s not working (and often, even when she is), you’ll find her outside—traveling, hiking, camping, paddleboarding, running, or doing anything else that involves living life to its fullest, all under her beautiful, wide-open sky.

Marsha grew up and married on the west coast of Newfoundland but raised her two boys on the east coast. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual) majoring in photography and printmaking and a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her love of photography started at a young age when she found her grandfather’sdarkroom in the attic of the family’s 100-year-old home. In archiving his photographs, she founda window into the traditions of this island. It is her belief that a picture truly does silently speak athousand words—putting food, culture, and place together has the potential to tell a thousand stories.