ABOUT
Trina Moyles is an author, JOURNALIST, and CREATIVE producer. Her work is inspired by rural communities and relationships with land, wildlife, food security, and climate change
Photo: Mark Kelly
She is the author of two award-winning books, including Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to the Feed the World (2018) and Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest (2021).
Moyles’s articles and essays have been published extensively in North America, including The Globe and Mail, Alberta Views, Maisonneuve, The Walrus, Hakai Magazine, Calgary Herald, and Canadian Geographic.
She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Cultural Anthropology from MacEwan University in 2010, and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
In 2021, Moyles was selected as a national delegate to represent Canada at the Frankfurt Book Awards in recognition of her work as a non-fiction writer and author.
In 2022, she was recognized by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards as an Emerging Artist in Alberta, one of the most prestigious literary honours in the province.
She is currently working with Edmonton-based filmmaker, Anna Kuelken, to produce the Women Who Dig documentary film based on the Canadian chapter in her book.
Her much anticipated memoir about learning to coexist with bears, Black Bear, will be published with Knopf Canada in the Spring 2025.
Moyles is represented by Marilyn Biderman at Transatlantic Literary Agency.
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