Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	wanderer and wonderer
Location	Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Introduction	I am Finnish Canadian. Olen Kanadan Suomalainen ja Pohjanmaan flicka. I live on the northshore of Lake Superior. I walk a lot, write a lot and think a lot.
Interests	nature, writing, walking, thinking, theory, birds, books, food, friends, family, yoga, peace, poetry, justice, Finnish Canadian identity, Lake Superior, water, sky, earth, storytelling, history, northwestern Ontario, the divine, justice for Palestine, justice for First Nations
Favorite movies	Into the West; At Five in the Afternoon; August Rush; Across the Universe; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?
Favorite music	Azam Ali; Sami Yusuf; Silk Road; Nafas; Wryd Sisters; Maria Kalaniemi; Varttina; AP Sarjanto; Warda; Tellu; Sanna Kurki Suonio
Favorite books	A map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand; The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif; Beloved by Toni Morrison; DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage; The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez; When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai; Dinarzad's Children; Palace of the End, play by Judith Thompson; The Black Eyed play by Betty Shamieh; poetry by Lorna Crozier, Lorna Goodison, Mary Oliver, Forough Farrokzhad, Marilyn Dumont; Jeanette Armstrong, Mohja Kahf, Suheir Hammad; Rafeef Ziadeh

You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?

On the shore of Lake Superior