Elizabeth Nickson

Elizabeth Nickson worked for seven years at Time Inc. and for the last four years served as European bureau chief for Life Magazine. She has written for Harper's, the London Sunday Times Magazine, the Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Spectator and British Vogue. In Canada, she has written for Saturday Night, Chatelaine, and the Globe and Mail. In the late 90's, she was a weekly columnist and contributing reviewer for the Globe and Mail, then, in the 2000's, a controversial and popular Comment page columnist for the National Post, where she covered politics and culture. In 1994, Bloomsbury and Knopf Canada published Nickson's novel, The Monkey Puzzle Tree. She lives in Victoria and Salt Spring Island with James Craig. Between them they have three children and three grandchildren. For the past three years, Elizabeth has been working on a book about nouvelle country life: "A Soft Place to Fall, subtitled, A Redneck Woman at Large in a Conservation Community" and building a pink rammed earth house, which is carbon neutral and called Ravine House, or more often, the Pink House.