Rosella Leslie is a well-known B.C. author who has lived on the Sunshine Coast for over thirty years. She was born in Alberta and has been writing since she was a child. She is the author of several novels and a number of non-fiction works, some of which she co-authored with Betty Keller. Rosella is a past member of the board of directors of the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts and a member of the SunCoast Writers Forge She was a co-winner of the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for "A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming" (Harbour Publishing 2005). Her work has also been published in numerous magazines and newspapers. Her interviews with early residents of the Sunshine Coast reveal that life on the coast revolved around community, friends and family; adults worked hard and children made their own amusements, much like life in many small communities in British Columbia and the rest of Canada.