With a B.A. and B.L.S. from McGill University, Penticton-born Betty Gordon Funke of Victoria self-published her Writers Mini Kit (Cherry Tree Press, 1989), a guide for aspiring writers with tips from modems to marketing, as well as Tweed Curtain Pioneers (2004). She has published in approximately 40 periodicals, taught journalism at the Braille Institute of Los Angeles, and taught writing courses at Camosun College in 1990.

[BCBW 2005] "Journalism"