The Icelandic connection - 01.09.2010, Síða 45

Vol. 63 #2
ICELANDIC CONNECTION
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Contributors
INGI G. BJORNSON and wife Cindy operate a fishing lodge at Neso Lake in Northern
Manitoba. Trapping, hunting, fishing, canoeing, drinking coffee, swatting mosquitoes, writ-
ing, standing by a crackling wood stove to ward off frostbite form the basis of his life.
THOMAS THOR BUCHANAN is a student at the University of Toronto.
NINA BJARNASON CAMPBELL is an active member of the Nordurljos Chapter of the
Icelandic National League in Edmonton. She enjoys translating older Icelandic
Canadian/American writing.
GUDRUN GAIL HELGASON is a freelance writer who grew up in Foam Lake,
Saskatchewan and now lives in St. Albert, Alberta. She is the author of a novel Swimming into
Darkness, a book of short stories, Fracture Patterns, and co-author of the revised Canadian
Rockies Access Guide.
AUDRHEALANDE is a retired educator who now has time and space for her first love-
—research and writing. She became interested in the legacy of Miss Sigurbjorg Stefansson
when her niece and nephew, who called themselves "Icelandickers" when they were little,
began attending the early years school named after this remarkable teacher. She lives in
Winnipeg, where she is deep into the writing of Miss Stefansson's biography.
MHARI MACKINTOSH is a writer and teacher who divides her time between
Winnipeg and Gimli where she has summered since her birth. Born a Scot, she has taught cre-
ative writing in Iceland and Germany and is delighted to be considered a token Icelander.
ROB OLASON grew up in Washington State as a fourth generation North American of
Icelandic descent. He operates a small business in Bellingham, Washington and is fascinated
by the ways each generation of descendants interprets and responds to their Icelandic heritage.
ELIN PORDARDOTTIR was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a grad-
uate student with the Icelandic Studies Department at the University of Manitoba.
LORNA TERGESEN is the editor of the Icelandic Connection.
EINAR VIGFUSSON is a retired farmer who lives on the family farm just outside
Arborg, Manitoba. He is well known as a realistic wildfowl wood carver. Over the past two
years, he has been writing stories of days gone by in his rural community, many based on his
own experiences.