Trina's essays have appeared in The Write Launch, Cool Beans Lit and Half and One. She won Honourable Mentions in the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition and the Dreamer's Creative Writing Flash Nonfiction Competition. Trina holds a double bachelor's degree in English and International Development Studies from the University of Guelph. After a fulfilling teaching career, Trina is now an MFA student at the University of King’s College, where she is writing a memoir, entitled The Aster Glass: Violence, Revelation, and Hope. She spends her free time homeschooling the youngest of her seven children, paddleboarding on local lakes, and obsessing over fermenting the perfect bottle of kombucha. Trina is a repeat adopter of rescue dogs and lives with her family in Halifax, Nova Scotia.