ABOUT
Trina Moyles is a YUKON-BASED 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 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.
In 2023, Moyles relocated to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, where she resides today. In June 2024, Moyles received the Yukon Advanced Artist Award, which is allowing her to embark upon researching and writing her first novel.
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 2025.
Moyles is represented by Marilyn Biderman at Transatlantic Literary Agency.
emerging artist
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favorite reads
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Call of the Wild – Meet Five Women Working to Protect Wild Bears
Chatelaine
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‘Treated like machines’: wildfire fighters describe a mental health crisis on the frontlines
The Narwhal
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Herd memory
Alberta Views