Linda Goyette

Linda Goyette is currently working on an anthology of immigrants’ writing, The Story That Brought Me Here. She is also writing a second nonfiction book for children, Rocky Mountain Kids, to be published in late 2007. Her most recent major works are the oral history Edmonton In Our Own Words and the companion volume for children, Kidmonton: True Stories of River City Kids. For her extensive work in oral history, including a project for the Edmonton Public Library, she won the Grant MacEwan Author’s Award in 2005. She worked for 20 years as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for the Edmonton Journal, winning two National Newspaper Awards for her writing. A regular columnist in AlbertaViews, she also contributes feature articles to regional and national magazines. In 1998, she published her first book, Second Opinion, a collection of her earlier writings.

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