Louise S. Framst of the Tahltan First Nation was born on May 29, 1944, in Lower Post, B.C., and raised in northern B.C. where she lives on a farm at Cecil Lake with her husband. With her B. Ed. (5-Year) in History and Special Education from UBC, Framst has experience as a teacher in a multi-grade rural school, a librarian and a learning assistant teacher.

Prior to her retirement, she served as an itinerant teacher facilitating programs for children with special needs. Framst has also edited a community project entitled A Community Tells Its Story: Cecil Lake 1925-2000 (2000), and self-published three Tahltan cookbooks and a series of children's titles including On My Walk (2001), Manny's Many Questions (1992) and Kelly's Garden (1992). Other Framst titles include Feathers (2004) and But I Cleaned My Room Last Year! (2002).

"The reason that I chose to become my own publisher,"; she says, "is that it was important to me to have my own interpretation put on stories that I chose to publish. It seemed to me that if others edited my work, then somehow what was important to me might be 'lost' or misinterpreted.";

BOOKS:

On My Walk (Louise Framst Books, 1991)
Manny's Many Questions (Louise Framst Books, 1992)
Kelly's Garden (Louise Framst Books, 1992)
A Tahltan Cookbook, Vol. 1 Grace and George Edzerza Family (Louise Framst Books, 1994)
A Tahltan Cookbook, Vol. 2: More than 88 Ways to Prepare Salmon (Louise Framst Books, 1996)
A Tahltan Cookbook, Vol. 3: Campfire Cooking (Louise Framst Books, 1997)
(editor) A Community Tells Its Story: Cecil Lake 1925-2000 (Cecil Lake: Nor'Pioneer Women's Institute, 2000)
But I Cleaned My Room Last Year! How to clean your bedroom (Louise Framst Books, 2002)
Feathers (Louise Framst Books, 2004)

[BCBW 2005]