Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Kim Kenny
Jules Torti
BIO
Biography

Jules Torti is the Editor-in-Chief of Harrowsmith magazine. Her freelance work has appeared in Cottage Life, Coast Mountain Culture, JourneyWomanOur Homes, FASHIONWrite, Canadian RunningMassage Therapy Canada, Living Room, The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail. Yeah, she wears a lot of hats--most of them backwards. She also squeezes out a weekly post on Substack at Jules is Out of Office (julestorti.substack.com) where she routinely digs into the best things in life: birds, books, beaches, beer and burgers.

Torti is the author of Free to a Good Home: With Room for Improvement (Caitlin Press);Trail Mix: 920km on the Camino de Santiago (Rocky Mountain Books); Been There, Ate That: A Candy-coated Childhood (winner of the 2021 Pottersfield Press Creative Non-Fiction Prize); The Wisdom Found in Hen's Teeth (Pottersfield Press) and Trips That Went South: From Point A to B(eware) (Pottersfield Press). Camino Chaos: Taking it All in Stride Across Croatia and Portugal will be published in Spring 2026.

ADDRESS
City: Lion's Head, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Memoir, Non-Fiction, Travel, Humour
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Trips That Went South: From Point A to B(eware)
Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Year
2024
Title
The Wisdom Found in Hen's Teeth
Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Year
2023
Title
Been There, Ate That: A Candy-Coated Childhood
Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Year
2022
Title
Trail Mix: 920km on the Camino de Santiago
Publisher
Rocky Mountain Books
Year
2021
Title
Free to a Good Home: With Room for Improvement
Publisher
Caitlin Press
Year
2019
Title
Camino Chaos: Taking it All in Stride Across Croatia and Portugal
Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Year
2026
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Pottersfield Press Creative Non-Fiction Prize
Publication
Been There, Ate That: A Candy-Coated Childhood
Year
2021
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