Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic has been a monthly back-page columnist for Focus on Women, renamed Focus, for more than nine years. As a freelance writer she has published more than 100 articles in magazines such as Canadian Living, Western Living, Harrowsmith Country Life, The Beaver and Saltscapes.

DATE OF BIRTH: April 29, 1954

PLACE OF BIRTH: Dalhousie, New Brunswick

ARRIVAL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: December 15, 1991

AWARDS: People in Transition selected as finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Multicultural Non-Fiction category. Presented at BookExpo America in New York, April 2002

BOOKS:

Canadian By Choice, Lancelot Press, 1988 [out of print]
Pier 21: The Gateway that Changed Canada, Lancelot Press, 1988
People in Transition, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2001
Ernie Coombs: Mr. Dressup (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2005).

[BCBW 2008]