<b>Barbara Stewart</b> has worked as a banker, homemaker, housecleaner, nail girl and furniture salesperson. Soon after her stint as a campie, she went to work at Heart House, a bed-and-breakfast for heart patients and their families. In 2006 she returned to university and in 2010 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (With Distinction) from the University of Victoria’s Writing Program. She has been published in <i>Event</i>, <i>Grain</i> and <i>The Walrus</i> and was shortlisted in the CBC Literary Awards competition for non-fiction (2008) and the <i>Event</i> Creative Non-fiction Contest (2009). She lives in Langley, BC.
