<p>PATRICIA FRASER'S career has enabled her to savour history and ambience from Canada's Yukon to Australia to the Pacific Northwest of British Columbia. A lengthy affiliation with The Writer's Craft, a Canadian editing service, provided the nuts and bolts of strong writing.<br/><br/>Her fictional pieces often draw on childhood experiences in the Yukon, while a current work-in-progress is set amongst the Northwest coast Haida and Tsimsian First Nations. She is equally comfortable with non-fiction.<br/><br/>Ken Kirkby—Warrior Painter is a biography focussing on one of Canada's most inspiring advocates. "Kirkby's determination to make a positive difference in the way we treat our land is an important subject," she says, "but, with a larger-than-life character like Ken, magic cannot be overlooked."<br/><br/>Patricia writes from Salt Spring Island and enjoys quality time with her children, Jennifer, Bruce and Douglas, and their busy families on the west coast.</p>
