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Heather Pringle

Heather Pringle has spent the past two decades portraying the lives of ordinary people in the distant and not so distant past.  During her distinguished career as a journalist, she has written for magazines as diverse as Science, Stern, Geo, New Scientist, National Geographic Traveler, Islands, Texas Monthly and Canadian Geographic.

Pringle was born in Edmonton, Canada, the daughter of a professional hockey player and a passionate Montreal Canadians fan.  She studied history and literature at the University of Alberta, and later earned a master’s degree in Victorian literature from the University of British Columbia.

Deciding against an academic career, she worked first as a museum researcher and later as a freelance book editor and writer.  In 1980, she moved permanently to British Columbia.  There she began writing for magazines on subjects as diverse as the mating behavior of young singles in Manhattan bars and the travails of dinosaur hunters in Mongolia. 

Over her long writing career, she has traveled extensively, roaming the remote island of Tonga, journeying through the Peruvian backcountry at the height of the civil war, and wandering the pitch-dark passageways of newly excavated Roman villas at Pompeii. She spent her thirty-fifth birthday on assignment, flying an F-18 fighter jet in northern Alberta and briefly taking the controls to fly loops and barrel rolls.

She currently lives in a Vancouver suburb with her husband Geoff.  She is a long-distance runner and an avid tennis player. She loves listening to Keith Jarrett when she writes.