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clea mcdougall

I specialize in finding stories & telling stories.

I have a long history of dabbling in journalism, magazine & book editing, visual art & creative writing.

My most recent major project was co-writing

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writer

I studied creative writing at the University of Victoria in the early 90s.

Since then I have published an assortment of poetry, fiction, interviews, profiles & a cookbook or two.

I write about the arts, women, the open question of spirituality, the natural world & food.

to read:

Alice in Wonder & Awe: An Interview with Alice Coltrane

The Blessed & Cursed Catastrophe We Call Death & Dying: An Interview with Joan Halifax Roshi

Mystics in the Making: An Interview with Carol Lee Flinders

Living In Poesis: A Profile of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

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editor

From 1999-2005 I was the editor of ascent magazine, the ahead-of-its-time, award-winning yoga magazine.

In 2006, I published an anthology of the best of ascent magazine, Inspired Lives.

2006-2016 I was the editor & creative director for timeless books, a micro-publisher specializing in spiritual practice & philosophy.

I now do freelance editing, with a focus on creative non-fiction.

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& etc ...

The etc of me informs the creative work I do.

I am a cook, professional & not ...

& I tend to an organic orchard & garden ...

& I was a caregiver to my mother in her last years with dementia ...

In otherwords ... ellipses & ampersands ... the stuff of life & death.

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