About the Author:
Alicja Zajac-Merifield is a mother, grandmother, semi-retired teacher and Reiki practitioner. She has taught in various Elementary and Secondary schools in Montreal, London, Toronto, Madoc, Trenton, Batawa and Belleville and continues to substitue teach within the Quinte area of Ontario, Canada. A writer for over 25 years, Alicja has recently begun publishing some of her most cherished work. In her youth, the small town of Larder Lake in Northern Ontario was where her family called home. At the age of 16 they moved to London Ontario where Alicja attended London Teacher’s College. While raising her family, she received her BA in Fine Arts through Atkinson College’s evening and summer credit courses at York University in Toronto. Passionate about the arts and creative thought, she specialized in teaching English, Dramatic Arts and Visual Arts. Countless students were inspired by her creativity and compassionate mentorship. Alicja also became a member of the Toronto Metropolitan Separate School Board teachers’ musical theatre productions, participating in plays such as Fiddler on the Roof, the Music Man and Hello Dolly. She worked backstage for Theatre Five in Toronto and The Pinnacle Playhouse in Belleville. If you ask Alicja what inspires her creativity, she will tell you about her love of nature in all forms such as the silent beauty of the woods, the majesty of mountains, serenity of lakes and seas, and a crisp, starlit night sky. She is fascinated by unusual cloud formations and loves listening to the chirping of crickets and birds, the call of coyotes and wolves, the crash of thunder, and autumn rain on a tin roof. You may often find her strolling with binoculars through Jobe’s Woods in Brighton, sitting by the shores of Lake Ontario in Presqu’ile Park with notebook and pen, or writing her next book on her laptop in a small café in Belleville. Alicja is currently living in the Quinte area with her chocolate lab, Maggie, and working on the next two novels in the GoldDust series.
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