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M.Melvin
B. Marilyn McCrimmon
BIO
Biography

Marilyn McCrimmon was a secondary/post-secondary counsellor in Victoria, B.C. for more than 30 years, and has been a freelance writer for more than 40 years. She has published countless feature articles on a wide variety of topics (fitness, health, sport, profiles, travel, etc.) in various magazines.  She wrote a weekly (which evolved to monthly) newspaper column on horses for the Times/Colonist Newspaper for 35 years, and wrote a monthly fitness/health column for Focus on Women Magazine for 15 years.  In addition, she has published two books: Custodian of Yellow Point - A Biography of Gerry Hill (Beach Holme Publishers, 1991) and Facing Changes, Finding Freedom - Canadian Women at Midlife (co-authored with Rosemary Neering, Whitecap Books, 1996).  Today, she is retired from counselling, but continues to write advertorial and feature articles for various magazines. Marilyn has also completed a novel and is currently seeking an agent. 

ADDRESS
City: Victoria, Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
GENRE
Mainstream/Women's Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
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