Erin Elizabeth Christie is often described as the ‘poster child’ for never giving up. In her four years as a working journalist she has gone from freelancer to staff reporter and back again. An adventurous spirit, Erin will try anything! She has reported on everything from community news and agriculture in the quaint hamlets of southeastern Ontario to powwows and racial relations in the remote northwest. Erin has published work in the Gananoque Reporter, Kingston-This-Week, the Brockville Recorder and Times, the Nappanee Guide, the Sioux Lookout Bulletin and Suite 101 online magazine.
Erin studied Anthropology and Communications at the University of Windsor only to discover that she was meant for something else. Not knowing what that was she took a road trip and eventually ended up in Gananoque, Ontario. There, she discovered journalism while working as a waitress. Her first assignment was for the Gananoque Reporter and on the basis that if it wasn’t any good, she wouldn’t be paid. She got paid and has never looked back.
More recently Erin has experimented with a foray into public relations where she was told that if she wanted to write for glory, she should go and be a journalist and if she wanted to write for money, to stay in PR. It was at that moment that she learned an important lesson. Money isn’t everything. She is once again a journalist and couldn’t be happier.
Erin’s main goal is to make a difference and to use her writing to do it. Other goals/ interests include: getting her documentary ‘off the ground,’ writing a great book, avoiding being voted Canada’s Worst Driver.