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Jan Redford was raised in Yukon, NWT, and the Ottawa Valley and now lives in Squamish, B.C., where she mountain bikes, trail runs, climbs, and skis. Her stories, articles, and personal essays have been published in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Mountain Life, Explore, Alpinist, various anthologies, and have won several writing contests. She holds a master’s of creative writing from UBC and a B.Ed. from University of Calgary. Her memoir: End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood was published in spring 2018 with Random House Canada and Counterpoint Press, U.S. She has two "real" manuscripts gathering dust while she feeds her addiction to genealogy and ancestral story-telling.