Rosa Harris-Adler, who has written for virtually every Canadian periodical, is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and was recently shortlisted for a Fulbright Award.

For nearly a decade, she was editor of Ottawa City magazine and a columnist for The Ottawa Citizen. She has served as a judge for both the National Magazine Awards and the National Newspaper Awards. She currently writes a column for the Times Colonist in Victoria.

She has two lovely boys, now both young adults.