Thelma Fayle has 25 years of experience as a researcher and systems analyst for a provincial government office in Canada and has recently graduated with an MFA in narrative nonfiction (UKings School of Journalism, Dalhousie)—earned as a celebration of turning 65. She is a member of the Writer’s Union of Canada (TWUC) and the author of Ted Grant: Sixty Years of Legendary Photojournalism (Heritage House 2013)—a book she wrote to honour a hard-working Canadian artist. As a freelance writer, Thelma has been published in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Reader’s Digest, THIS magazine, the Blind Canadian, CBC.ca, The Tyee, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her second book, Undressing Stereotypes: In the privacy of letters to Obasama.