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Editor-in-Chief / Founder  Carla Atherton is a writer and all-round compulsive creator. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Saskatchewan, the work for which was squeezed between writing, mothering, building a house, and starting (ad)ventures. She founded and currently edits and manages Cahoots Magazine and is currently working at Athabasca University in their Women's Studies Department. She also develops and teaches creative writing workshops to people 6-75 and is presently working on a novel (isn't everyone?). Her creative work has appeared in various literary journals, and her thesis-turned-book is to be published in September 2008 under the title The Poetry of Motherhood (but will anyone read it?). Carla has been a greeting card writer and designer, teacher, researcher, business owner, writer, editor, and publisher. She lives and works in Saskatoon with her three young children, Nicholas, Olivia, and Isabel, and husband, Brent. Carla can most often be found harried and haggard decked out in a babushka and yoga pants feeding watermelon to her children, niece, and the dozens of children in her neighborhood. Along with acting as Cahoots Magazine's editor-in-chief, Carla writes an arts and entertainment column called Inspired (formerly known as Escapes) and a new column/blog/blurting-out-of-thoughts called Chronicles of a Wannabe Bushwoman for the magazine. Layout Designer Lori Nixon is a work-from-home mother of two. Her main passions in life, language, and culture, stem from a childhood dream to visit every place in the world and speak every language. Fulfilling that dream isn't likely to happen anytime soon, although she currently speaks English, French, some Spanish, and is tackling Romanian. In her spare time, she works as a volunteer with recent immigrants and refugees to Canada. Her 'real' career, the culmination of a degree in mathematics and computer science, is a programmer analyst, but she finds that doing graphical design work for magazines like Cahoots is much more fun. Contributors Click here for a complete list of our freelance contributors. Columnists  Sheree Bradford-Lea is a cartoonist and humour writer. She writes and draws about anything that either strikes her fancy or makes her cranky, which means she writes and draws a lot. She started drawing cartoons when her children were toddlers and didn't understand her need to write a graceful paragraph before she got them juice. In addition to being the featured cartoonist for Cahoots, her cartoons are regularly featured in the Herstory Day Calendars and Horizon: A Digest of Good Stories and Humour. As well, her humour and cartoons have appeared in many publications, including The Best Contemporary Women's Humour (Crossing Press), Herizons, Hip Mama, and The New Quarterly. When she's not drawing cartoons, Sheree is giving cartooning workshops to groups. She also teaches adult cartooning classes. She also owns and operates her own business, SABL Cartoon Creations, that sells items featuring her cartoons. More information, including how to hire her cartooning and teaching skills, can be found on her website, www.shereebradfordlea.com, and she welcomes inquiries. Sheree lives in Ottawa with her wonderful husband, two equally wonderful children, Zoe and Monica, and a parka.  Itchy feet and an inquisitive palate keep food writer and editor Charmian Christie on the go. When she's not tasting her way across the continent, she's discovering new and delicious ways to bring Canada's harvest to the table. Editor-in-Chief for Cuisine Canada's blog, she's also a regular contributor to numerous national and regional magazines. Her articles appear in popular publications including Edible Toronto, Natural Health, Alternative Medicine, Pilates Style, and Canadian Gardening. Charmian lives in South Western Ontario in a century-old home she shares with one husband, two cats, and more measuring cups than she cares to admit. You can follow her culinary adventures on her blog, Christie's Corner, where the motto is "Real food. Real life. It ain't always pretty." Visit Charmian's website at www.charmian-christie.com.  Lesley Crewe Lesley grew up on the streets of Montreal, but came to Cape Breton to live over thirty years ago. She's had the same hubby for that length of time, too.....she's either incredibly lucky in love, or just lazy. They have three children, Paul, Sarah, and Joshua who died in 1985 of SIDS. She wrote a column about family life in The Cape Bretoner Magazine for five years and then started writing novels to avoid cleaning the house. Lesley's first book, Relative Happiness, was launched in 2005, her second novel, Shoot Me, was published in 2006. They've both been bestsellers in her part of the world which still blows her mind. Her third book, Ava Comes Home, was published in September 2008. "It's really good, if I do say so myself," Lesley says. She spent the summer writing the screenplay for the movie based on her first novel. "The happy news is I'm not suffering from empty nest in the least! However, I am grumpy and menopausal and can't remember squat." Visit Lesley's website at www.lesleycrewe.com.  Gisele Grignon loves playing with words. She loves getting paid for playing with words even more. Starting as daily newspaper reporter in the late 70s, Gisele's worked as a staff and freelance journalist, editor and columnist for print, broadcast and internet markets. She co-founded with her husband a corporate communications agency (Word Farm Communications--when you need writers outstanding in their field) specializing in the health, education, agriculture and business sectors. She's yet to tackle a topic that hasn't benefited from her admittedly off-kilter sense of humour. She's also worked as a car sander, waitress, and Governor General's Foot Guard (among the very first group females "allowed" in). As careers go, she's sticking with writing because it doesn't ruin her manicure (she's never actually had one, but she's pretty sure a keyboard's more nail-friendly than sand-paper, dishwater or push-ups on gravel), doesn't cause foot blisters, and she doesn't have to wear a blood red tunic and smelly buzzbee and parade in front of tourists--unless she wants to of course. She lives in Moose Creek (no kidding) ON, near Ottawa, and has three children (grown and living away--sigh), and four barn cats who insist they're house cats. Gisele commutes to her office on the main floor of her century-old farmhouse and has never missed a day's work due to poor stairway conditions. She finds it odd to refer to herself in the third person, but I'm getting used to it.  Based in Victoria, BC, Christine Hart currently works as freelance writer and communications specialist. In addition to her background as a writer, Christine brings employment counseling experience to her column at Cahoots. She shares her Esquimalt home with two cats, three computers, and her partner of eight years._Trained as a journalist at the University of Victoria, Christine has covered social services, career planning, and youth issues in past articles. She also specializes in web design, desktop publishing, creative non-fiction, and children's literature. In her spare time she enjoys consuming alternative media, painting, photography, blogging and cross-country skiing. But her book Watching July from McNally Robinson now! Christine's column is an insightful rambling from the Canadian workplace covering unusual occupations, career concerns, and success outside stereotypes. The column will redefine success with exciting career profiles and real workplace concerns. Visit her website at www.christine-hart.com.  Lorette C. Luzajic is a fascinating Canadian woman who also writes Fascinating People (www.fascinatingpeople.wordpress.com), Fascinating Queers, and Fascinating Writers. She is also The Spice Girl, and writes spice, food, and nutrition stories for Gremolata.com. She will be writing a column about mythology beginning later this summer. A graduate of Ryerson's J-school, Lorette has written about literature, art, business, spirituality, mental health, addiction, food, pets, health, and more for everything from Adbusters to Dog Fancy. She is also a widely published poet, appearing in hundreds of journals and zines. Lorette is the author of The Astronaut's Wife: Poems of Eros and Thanatos and Weird Monologues for a Rainy Life (irreverent ramblings from the end of the world), both available through Indigo online or on her site, www.thegirlcanwrite.net. Look for her third and fourth books later this year.  Giulia Mauro is a freelance writer from Victoria and firmly believes that being interesting is better than being sensible. Her husband, who is very sensible, disagrees completely. She laughs at life and tries to stay calm at www.giuliamauro.com.  Gord Sellar is a Canadian from Saskatoon who has lived in South Korea since late 2001. He holds a position as a professor at a University in the Korean countryside and is an active Korea-blogger, an inactive musician, and a semi-active cyclist. His main interests are SF fiction, verse, web design, atonal jazz music, and pithy essays about far-flung places. He's currently working on the SF novel of the century. Or perhaps not. His previous column, The Fairer Blog (now discontinued), introduces readers to the universe of blogs online which are written by women, featuring regular reviews and occasional introductions to blogging, as well. In 1929, Virginia Woolf wrote that a woman must, in order to write, "have money and a room of her own." Things have changed since then. Millions of women are expressing themselves honestly and independently by self-publishing online, having their voices heard, and most of them are doing it for free. Gord now writes XY, a column described by Gord as: "something kind of, well, encapsulating an enlightened male point of view on things. Not a male point of view on, like, sexy underwear, or a male point on why women should cook, or moronic stuff like that, but an interesting, thought-provoking, and perhaps challenging comment from a male perspective on issues that are important to women, or on issues important to women *AND* men." Visit Gord's website at www.gordsellar.com.  Sarah Stefanson used to be a quasi-famous singer/songwriter in her corner of the world, releasing an album titled broken like a starfish in 1998. Now she lives the quiet life of a writer in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her perfect fiance and their adorable newt. In addition to her Sense and Sensuality column, she is also Lead Editor and a weekly columnist for online lifestyle magazine TheSoko.com, and Editor of DriverSense.com and DailyTakeoff.com. She is a regular contributor to Suite101.com and AskMen.com. Sarah writes Cahoots Magazine's answer to the need for an honest, mature, informative, and exploratory sex column for women. It's about time! Comments (0)
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