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Meet our contributors

Writers. Photographers. Illustrators.

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Photographer

Abbie Finestone

Abbie is a food, product and lifestyle photographer from Australia, now living in Whistler. With an art and design background and 30 years in restaurants and hospitality, she is drawn to the simple beauty of food and food styling.

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Writer / Photographer

Asalah Youssef

Asalah is a visual storyteller who studied regenerative community systems at UBC and has spent the last six years photographing and working on regenerative farms. Her work follows food from seed to harvest to the communal table.

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Writer

Brandon Barrett

Brandon Barrett is an award-winning reporter, editor and former staff writer at Whistler's Pique Newsmagazine.

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Writer

Bronwyn Preece

A site-sensitive, poetic renegade and multidisciplinary arts practitioner, dubbed the backcountry poet, Bronwyn holds a PhD in performance and is the author of hiking beyond: poems from the trail and Sea to Sky Alphabet. She lives in Whistler.

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Writer

Erica Osburn

Erica Osburn is a freelance writer and editor and has lived in the Pemberton Valley for over two decades. Locally-sourced food is important to her and, after Covid, became a necessity. She proudly contributed to writer Lisa Richardson’s food blog Traced Elements, where local food producers and writers shared recipes and food lore from the bountiful Pemberton valley. Erica’s freezer and pantry are always stocked with locally hunted deer meat, locally foraged pine mushrooms, local blueberries and blanched chard, Lillooet tomatoes, and Helmer’s Yukon gold potatoes.

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Writer

Gaby Barnes

Gaby is a food systems specialist, owner of the Good Stock Grocer in Brackendale and mother of two fantastic kiddos. Gaby holds a master’s degree in sustainability from UBC and has spent a decade in food systems and community sustainability. Gaby lives in Squamish.

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Illustrator

Lannie McCullough

Lannie is an Afro-Indigenous woman from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh People who has lived in her own Traditional Territories her whole life. She works primarily in digital art and acrylic paint, most often featuring flora, fauna and whimsical little creatures. Her illustration work includes a children’s book and commissioned character illustration.

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Photographer

Logan Swayze

Logan is a Whistler-based photographer working in portrait, lifestyle, commercial and wedding photography. His images capture real moments shaped by a deep love of the outdoors.

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Writer

Katherine Fawcett

​Katherine is a Squamish-based writer, playwright, mentor and musician. Her books The Swan Suit and The Little Washer of Sorrows were both Sunburst Award finalists. She is a devoted foodie with an adventurous appetite and a sweet tooth.

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Writer / Editor

Katherine (Kate) Mulligan

Kate leads business planning, content and partnerships for the Sea to Sky Cooks Collective, bringing decades of experience in strategy, communications and community engagement. She edited this book and wrote “Market Day.”

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Illustrator

Keanna Lee

As art director for the Sea to Sky Cooks Collective, Keanna leads its visual identity and creative direction. Her work spans book layout, branding and visual storytelling across the whole project.

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Photographer

Nicole Gurney

​Nicole is a Squamish-based photographer specializing in lifestyle and environmental portraiture. Deeply invested in her community, she also works closely with Squamish Helping Hands at the Under One Roof hub, supporting essential food security initiatives and local access to healthy food.

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Photography

Robin O'Neill

Robin uses her camera as a tool to connect with people and landscapes and tell a story for editorial publications and commercial clients such as Arc’teryx and Whistler Blackcomb. Her ideal day involves sweat and movement outside in her Sea to Sky home — whether on the slopes or at a farm — and unknowingly wearing a dirt mustache. Find more at robinoneillphotography.com.

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Copy Editor

Susan Fitzgerald

Susan is an editor based in Vancouver. She is passionate about social and environmental issues related to food. When she’s not editing, she works with a community organization that shares healthy rescued food with folks in need. 

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Publishers

Terra Gaddes

Terra is the publisher of Edible Sea to Sky magazine. Over the past two decades in this community, she has watched its food culture evolve. She believes food connects people and brings them together.

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Photographer

Vairdy Frail

Vairdy is a Squamish-based photographer specializing in food and lifestyle. When not behind the camera shooting your favourite dish, she is keeping up with her husband and twin boys.  

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