Board of Directors

She obtained a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka Nigeria. A master’s degree in International marketing from the University of West of Scotland, United Kingdom. A specialization in Creative writing from Wesleyan University Connecticut in the United States of America and a specialization in coaching skills for managers from University of California Davis.

She is an active member of the writer’s alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and a one-time member of the writer’s guild of Newfoundland and Labrador Canada. Theresa was a jury for the Newfoundland and Labrador 2018 young adults/children’s book award. She also served as a member of the board for St. John’s public library and the writer’s guild of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Susan Carpenter earned an Honours English Degree from Western University, a PR Certificate through Mount Royal University, and a Creative Writing Certificate from the Humber School for Writers. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Howard O’Hagan Award, the Journey Prize, was a finalist in the Short Prose Competition through the Writers’ Union of Canada, came first-runner-up in the Little Bird Contest, and won The Fringe Contest at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival. In 2016, she was chosen by The Writers’ Guild of Alberta as one of five emerging voices to receive a mentorship for a YA novel.

Susan teaches Sarah Selecky’s Story Intensive online. By day, she works as an Associate Investment Advisor in Calgary, and by night raises a blended family of five sons in various stages of higher learning and moving out, and a chocolate lab that refuses to launch.

Her research program and her writing focus on family caregiving and home care using innovative and arts-based approaches. She recently retired from her fulltime role as a professor (University of Alberta) and Clinician Scientist (Alberta Health Services). Kim uses applied research to incite public conversations and inform policy for better outcomes for home care clients and family caregivers. Kim has embarked on a second career as author and recently completed her first full length book manuscript, The Accidental Caregiver, forthcoming in 2021. She does contract teaching with Athabasca University.

Kim has been active on several community boards in the past and is currently, she Vice-President of Caregivers Alberta. She is looking forward to the second year of her term on the board with WGA.