The Icelandic Canadian - 01.03.2003, Page 49

Vol. 57 #4
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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Contributors
TIMOTHY GRANT ARNASON has been a volunteer with the
Islendingadagurinn for approximately 20 years. Tim works for Manitoba Public
Insurance as Claims Division Manager. He lives in Winnipeg, and is married to
Delphine and has two children, Alena and Brady.
SARA BERG was born in July 1987 and attends Churchill High School in
Winnipeg. She writes in her journal consistantly and often writes poems. “Poems
are a vent for emotions - both my feelings and those I pick up from others.” Sent in
by grandmother, Shirley Nordal- born and raised in Lundar, Man., now living in
Winnipeg,
ANNE BRYDON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier
University, in Waterloo Canada. Her current writing engages with modernity and
modernism in Iceland, including the cultural politics of the whaling issue. She also
has written about Winnipeg-based artists Eleanor Bond and William Eakin. With
Sandra Niessen she co-edited Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational
Body (Berg 1998).
NINA LEE COL WILL is a psychologist and management consultant, the
author of three books and some hundred articles and book chapters. She is cur-
rently writing her first novel.
DAVID J6N FULLER is a Winnipeg-based freelance writer. His work has
appeared in Logberg-Heimskringla, The Icelandic Canadian, and Prairie Books
Now, and he is a regular contributor to Uptown magazine.
SIGURBJORG STEFANSSON was a highly respected teacher. A school in
Gimli bears her name. She was instrumental in establishing the libraries at Gimli,
Riverton and Arborg. She had a great pride in her Icelandic heritage. Delving into
the history led her to translating the letters so that they could be shared.
CHRISTINA SUNLEY is the granddaughter of one of the original New
Iceland settlers, Dr. Olafur Bjornson, and his wife, SigriSur Brandson; her mother
is Edith Bjornson, originally of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Christina’s fiction has been
published in a variety of literary journals.
LORNA TERGESEN is acting Editor of The Icelandic Canadian Magazine.
She is involved in the Icelandic community, enjoying her cultural heritage, and
sharing it with others.