Sarah de LeeuwSarah de Leeuw is a human geographer. She grew up on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii (The Queen Charlotte Islands), Terrace, and currently lives in Prince George, BC. She has lived and worked in Arizona as a visiting Fulbright scholar with the Universiy of Arizona. She earned a B.F.A. from the University of Victoria, after which she spent time teaching English in South Korea. She has also worked as a tugboat driver, a women's centre coordinator, a logging camp cook, and a journalist and correspondent for Connections magazine and CBC Radio's BC Almanac. She has a Ph.D. in historical-cultural geography, and is currently an assistant professor with the Northern Medical Program at UNBC, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. De Leeuw is a two-time winner of the Creative Nonfiction category of the CBC Literary Awards, winning first place for "Columbus Burning" in 2009, and second place for "Quick-quick. Slow. Slow." in 2010. Her first book, Unmarked, was published by NeWest Press in 2004. Read More Read Less