The NMAF is pleased to announce the roster of judges for the 2018 awards program! Each year, the Foundation relies on the expertise of over 180 volunteer judges–editors, publishers, art directors, professors, writers, artists, journalists and readers of influence–to review the entries to the National Magazine Awards. THANK YOU to the individuals who volunteered their time and expertise to judge for the 41st National Magazine Awards!
2018 JURY
Click here to see the members of the Francophone Jury (Writing Awards).
Writing Awards (English), Visual Awards, Editorial Awards, and Best Magazine Awards:
![]() Adrian Lee is the opinion editor, as well as the editor overseeing arts and science coverage, at Maclean’s.
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![]() Afiya Francisco is a former magazine editor and leading style expert known for her fashion commentary and personable approach to tackling style questions. Afiya is a mom to two sons, Felix and Des.
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![]() Alysa Procida is the Executive Director & Publisher of the Inuit Art Quarterly. Bringing a wealth of experience with Inuit art and non-profit leadership, Alysa Procida joined the IAF in 2015. Prior to becoming the Foundation’s Executive Director, Alysa was the Executive Director and Curator of the Museum of Inuit Art.
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![]() Amy Rosen is an award-winning journalist and cookbook author, her latest book is Toronto Eats. She also owns Rosen’s Cinnamon Buns in Toronto.
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![]() Andrea Bennett is the Editor-in-Chief of Maisonneuve, a Reader’s Digest contributor and the designer for PRISM international.
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![]() Anna Minzhulina is an art director and design artist. For more than a decade she art directed and designed the Maisonneuve magazine. During that time, the publication has won the Magazine of the Year award twice. Many artists were nominated as well as rewarded for their work under her direction. Minzhulina herself was nominated multiple times and National Magazine awards for Best Cover, Best Issue, and Best Art Direction. She previously served as a judge for Still Life Photography category and Best Editorial Package.
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As Partner, Barb oversees projects for a diverse group of clients including Harry Rosen, University of Toronto, ROM, and ParticipAction. Barb is interested in strategic storytelling. A B.Des from OCAD University, Barb has a high profile within the graphic design community as a former chair of the Advertising & Design Club of Canada and as a speaker at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, York University and many other design associations. A multiple award-winning designer, she has taught at OCAD University and serves on numerous design juries.
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![]() Reader’s Digest. As senior advancement communications officer at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, she translates research and education priorities into compelling stories and engaging prose – writing for the UofTMed alumni magazine as well as for various other outlets. A graduate of Ryerson’s master’s of journalism program, Carolyn has worked as a current affairs producer for CBC Radio. She has lived and worked in Quebec and Latin America, and is fluent in English, French and Spanish. |
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![]() Cecil Rosner is Director of Investigative Journalism for CBC Regions. He has four decades experience in print and broadcast journalism, and for 13 years he was Managing Editor for CBC Manitoba. He has created and supervised documentaries, news and current affairs programs over the years, and specialized in investigative journalism. He is the co-author of When Justice Fails: the David Milgaard Story, and author of Behind the Headlines: a History of Investigative Journalism in Canada. He also teaches investigative journalism at the University of Winnipeg, where he is an adjunct professor.
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![]() Charles Yao is the Art Director at Little Brother Magazine and the Director of Speakers at The Lavin Agency.
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![]() Charlit Floriano is a Hamilton-based artist working in print and animation. She has contributed and art directed for The Feathertale Review.
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![]() Chelsea Murray is a Halifax-based writer and editor, and co-founder of The Deep Magazine.
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![]() Christina Vardanis is the executive editor at Chatelaine, where she oversees features, projects and branded partnerships. Prior to joining the magazine in 2015, she spent 12 years at The Globe and Mail assigning and editing features for the National desk, ROB, Life & Arts and Focus.
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![]() Craig Silverman is a media editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Toronto.
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![]() Curtis Gillespie has won seven National Magazine Awards, edits Eighteen Bridges magazine, and is director of the Environmental Writing program at the Banff Centre. He lives in Edmonton.
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![]() David Dixon was born in Toronto, Canada and trained at the prestigious Ryerson University. He enjoys tremendous media acclaim and stands out among that of his Canadian contemporaries as one of the leaders in women’s fashion design. His designs are sold across Canada and in select boutiques around the globe. His innovative designs have won him a following among the elite communities of film and fashion. David Dixon has been featured in such publications as; Vogue, Marie Claire, Town & Country, Elle, Elle Canada, Flare, Dressed to Kill, Fashion, Zink, The Globe and Mail, and WWD to name a few. Dixon has also appeared on such media programming such as Fashion Television, Fashion File, Celebrity Style, MTV, and Project Runway.
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![]() Denise Balkissoon is a weekly Opinion columnist and a reporter in the Globe’s Toronto section. The National Magazine Award-winning writer is also a co-founder of The Ethnic Aisle, a blog about race and ethnicity in the Greater Toronto Area
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Derek Webster is a freelance writer and editor, and the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine.
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![]() Dominique Ritter is the editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest Canada. She has also worked at Bookmark (formerly Spafax), The Canadian Encyclopedia and Adbusters.
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![]() Donna Griffith is an award-winning food, lifestyle and interiors photographer. Her work is frequently seen in Canadian House + Home, Style at Home, Canadian Living and other publications
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![]() Emily Landau is a senior editor at Toronto Life, where she handles features. She has written for Toronto Life, GQ, Esquire, The Walrus and Hazlitt.
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![]() Emily M. Keeler is the Vice President of PEN Canada and the editor of Exploded Views, a nonfiction series from Coach House Books. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Los Angeles Time, Toronto Life, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries and The Literary Review of Canada.
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![]() Enzo DiMatteo is Editorial Director at NOW Magazine. He was born in Belgium and emigrated to Canada in the heat of Trudeaumania. He cut his teeth in journalism in the 90s covering policing, politics and far-right movements. He is a winner of numerous writing awards.
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![]() François Émond est directeur artistique du magazine Québec Science depuis 1999. Il a été directeur artistique aux éditions Transcontinental pendant 10 ans, particulièrement à la revue Commerce. Il a aussi travaillé au magazine L’actualité et à l’Office national du film en début de carrière. Il a étudié en communication graphique à l’Université Laval et à l’Université d’Alberta. |
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![]() Harley Rustad is an editor at The Walrus magazine. He has written for publications including Outside, the Globe and Mail, and Geographical. His first book, Big Lonely Doug, based off a silver National Magazine Award-winning feature in The Walrus, is out September 2018.
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![]() Hudson Christie is a Toronto visual artist who works with photography and sculpture. Using paper and polymer clay, he creates miniature dioramas which he photographs and then archives or destroys, leaving the photograph as the prioritized record of his work. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Walrus, Maisonneuve Magazine, and the New Yorker, among others.
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![]() Ian Cockfield is Managing Editor of EVENT magazine, an award-winning BC-based literary journal now in its 46th year of publication. He also runs EVENT’s Reading Service for Writers, and is a past fiction editor of PRISM international. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, was a past president of the Magazine Association of BC, and has been a freelance editor since 2003, editing for Anvil Press, UBC Press, Douglas College, and others.
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![]() Jacqueline Kovacs is editor-in-chief of Metroland Media’s lifestyle magazines for York Region and Simcoe County, and previously was editor-in-chief of Professionally Speaking and deputy editor of Today’s Parent. Jean-François Proulx is the creative director of Nouveau Projet and of the design studio Balistique. He has won three National Magazine Awards. |
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![]() Jan Wong is an award-winning Canadian journalist. In 1972, as a third-generation Montrealer, Jan Wong became the first Canadian to study in China during the Cultural Revolution. Her newest book is Apron Strings.
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![]() Janice Stuckless is a lifelong writer and the longtime editor-in-chief of Downhome, an award-winning Newfoundland and Labrador lifestyle magazine with an international circulation and a 30th anniversary in June 2018.
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![]() Jean-François Légaré is the Editor-in-chief of Air Canada enRoute.
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![]() Jean-Nicolas Patoine est journaliste au quotidien Le Soleil.
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![]() Jeremy Keehn is a features editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, and was previously the editor of NewYorker.com, digital director of Harper’s, and senior editor at The Walrus.
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![]() Jessica Johnson is executive editor and creative director of The Walrus. She has previously worked as an editor for a number of Canadian magazines and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, Azure, FQ and the National Post. She is also a former marketing director for Hudson’s Bay. Her story “The Hairs About Our Secrets” in Eighteen Bridges won an NMA for humour in 2013.
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![]() John Milne is president of Breakwell & Company, a national media consulting firm whose clients include both national and regional publishers, associations and media services suppliers. Over a 35-year career in business publishing, John earned national writing awards as well as launching award-winning publications for both Maclean Hunter Limited and Rogers Publishing while effectively leading the transition from print to multiple platforms.
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Jordan Ginsberg is the editor-in-chief of Hazlitt and a senior editor at Penguin Random House Canada
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![]() Jude Isabella is editor in chief of Hakai Magazine, an online publication that explores coastal science and societies. She writes about science and environment for readers big and small, with sojourns into videography. Next year, Kids Can Press will publish her latest book, which is about predators and ecology in Yellowstone National Park.
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![]() Kamal Al-Solaylee is an associate professor of journalism at Ryerson University where he teaches feature writing and creative nonfiction, among other courses. He’s the author of two award-winning books, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes and Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone). He has written for several magazines and newspapers, including The Walrus, Toronto Life, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, Elle Canada, Sharp and Quill & Quire.
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![]() Katherine Laidlaw is a freelance writer for publications such as Outside, BuzzFeed, Marie Claire, Wired, Hazlitt and Toronto Life. She is a former senior editor of The Walrus magazine and has held masthead positions at Reader’s Digest Canada and Up Here.
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![]() Kathy English is the public editor of the Toronto Star.
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![]() Kim Fu’s first poetry collection How Festive the Ambulance received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and includes a Best Canadian Poetry selection and an NMA Silver Medal winner. Her poetry has appeared in Granta, CV2, PRISM International, Carousel, Canadian Literature, Grain, Room, the Rusty Toque, Ricepaper, and the New Quarterly. She is also the author of the novels For Today I Am a Boy, winner of the Edmund White Award and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and most recently, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore.
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![]() Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist. She is on the faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning in Denendeh and a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is author of As We Have Always Done, Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back, The Gift Is in the Making, Islands of Decolonial Love, and This Accident of Being Lost. Leanne is a member of Alderville First Nation, in Ontario, Canada.
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![]() Lisa Tant is an award-winning editor, writer and media personality – recognized as one of Canada’s leading experts on fashion, beauty and style. She was the editor-in-chief and associate publisher (from 2010) of FLARE, Canada’s bestselling fashion magazine, from 2004 to 2012.
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Jackie Kovacs is the magazine editor-in-chief at Metroland Media Group
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Journaliste et créatrice de contenu accomplie, Manon Chevalier compte plus de 20 ans d’expérience dans les milieux de l’édition, des médias, de la publicité et des communications. Parallèlement à ses collaborations régulières à ELLE Québec et à Véro, elle mène des mandats de création de contenu (imprimé, numérique, électronique et médias sociaux) pour des sociétés, des boîtes de production et des agences de communication de premier plan, en plus d’agir comme auteure et conseillère à l’édition. |
![]() Marcey Andrews is the art director of New Trail, the University of Alberta’s alumni magazine. She is also the senior designer in Marketing and Communications, University Relations at the University of Alberta. She has won four National Magazine Awards.
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![]() Marvin Orellana has been a photo editor at New York Magazine since 2013. Previously he worked at the New York Times Magazine. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he studied photojournalism.
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![]() Michael Macaulay oversees the production of the Porter in-flight magazine called re:porter and now, the Porter blog called re:view. He has been with Porter for over 9 years, working with the remarkable Marketing team to create fun creative that makes us smile, and hopefully makes you want to book a flight. His career includes brand and strategic work for a number of global and local clients.
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![]() Nancy Macdonald is an award-winning reporter based in Vancouver. This fall, the Winnipeg native joined The Globe and Mail’s B.C. bureau after 12 years with Maclean’s. Her features often focus on race, racism and social justice.
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![]() Nicolas Langelier est auteur, journaliste, commentateur culturel et éditeur. Il est rédacteur en chef et éditeur du magazine Nouveau Projet.
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![]() Journaliste depuis 25 ans, Pascale Millot a travaillé pour les plus grands médias du Québec, du Devoir à L’actualité, de Radio-Canada à La Presse etChâtelaine. Rédactrice en chef adjointe et reporter au magazine Québec Science pendant 8 ans, elle a remporté plusieurs prix de la Fondation des magazines canadiens. Depuis 2012, elle enseigne la littérature et le journalisme au cégep.
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![]() Paul Roelofs is an editorial art director with over twenty five years of experience working in lifestyle magazines. Roelofs began his career in Canada but soon after was recruited to New York and became art director for Garden Design and Saveur and most notably for InStyle. With work that has been recognized by international award-granting institutions including the Society of Publication Designers and the National Magazine Awards, Roelofs has lectured, taught and judged publication design in Canada and the U.S.
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![]() Pete Nguyen is and Art Director, Illustrator and Graphic Designer based in Edmonton.
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![]() Peter Ash Lee is a freelance photographer based in NYC. His clients include New York Times, i-D and British Vogue. In addition to his photography work, Peter is the co-founder and creative director of Corduroy Magazine, an award-winning arts and culture publication.
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![]() Peter McNeill is the Area Marketing Director, GTA at KPMG Canada.
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![]() Philina Chan is the art director at FLARE and HELLO! Canada. She has held previous titles at Chatelaine and Toro in addition to working in experiential marketing at Mosaic.
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Rachel Pulfer is the Executive Director of Journalists for Human Rights. Rachel has managed media development projects in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Prior to joining JHR, Rachel was a Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College, and a magazine journalist of 10 years’ standing.
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Richard Poplak was born and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. He trained as a filmmaker and fine artist at Montreal’s Concordia University and has produced and directed numerous short films, music videos and commercials. Now a full-time writer, Richard is a senior contributor at South Africa’s leading news site, Daily Maverick, and a frequent contributor to publications all over the world. |
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![]() Sadia Zaman is a senior leader with an extensive career history in media, cultural industries, and not-for-profits. She is a Managing Director at the ROM, and was previously Director, Original Program Development, CBC News and Centres. For three years, Sadia was also the Executive Director of Women in Film and Television-Toronto (WIFT-T), and before she moved to WIFT-T, Sadia helped create hundreds of hours of original, critically acclaimed content for VisionTV.as a writer, producer, director and host. She has won dozens of awards for her journalism, and been honoured by women’s groups for her leadership. Sadia is also a member of several advisory committees on digital initiatives.
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![]() Sandra E. Martin is informed by her rich and varied 25 years as a journalist and audience specialist, and currently heads family communications and content strategy for WE. During her tenure as Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Living, the magazine won numerous accolades, including Gold in the Best Media Website category at the 2015 Canadian Online Publishing Awards, and maintained its place as the most-read paid women’s lifestyle publication in print and online. Previously, Sandra helmed the highly successful launch of Walmart Live Better/Vivre mieux Walmart, and served in senior editorial capacities at Today’s Parent. Her byline has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Cottage Life and MoneySense, among others.p
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![]() Sandy Kim, during her 15+ years of experience as a creative director, has worked on beloved magazine titles such as Wish, Glow and Chatelaine, and collaborated with retail brands spanning fashion, health, beauty, décor and food. In addition to her publishing experience, she was the DVP of Creative at Holt Renfrew, where she transformed marketing and branded content initiatives for all channels. Sandy is currently the principal at Aperkoo, a creative agency she founded, where her love for storytelling has helped her build engaging brand and content strategies that anticipate the needs of consumers and readers alike. She is proud to be part of the prestigious jury for the 2018 National Magazine Awards for Best Lifestyle magazine.
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Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s first book was an account of the year he spent in deep cover, living with the homeless in Toronto’s infamous Tent City. Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown was nominated for the 2005 Pearson Writers’ Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Trillium Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. The following year, he was awarded the Knowlton Nash Journalism Fellowship at Massey College and also played the role of Jason – a bad-mannered, well-dressed journalist – on CBC-TV’s The Newsroom. He currently teaches writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Ghosted is his first novel.
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Simon Rivest is an artist since forever. He worked 18 years in various national advertising agencies and since 2011, he is the creative director of Ping Pong Ping with his business and life partner Catherine Lepage. The multi-disciplinary creative studio devotes his unique and craft-based approach to collaborations mostly within the cultural sector. Since 2001, he is also part of artistic duo Doyon- Rivest. Their art has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Above all else, Simon believes in ideas.
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![]() Sophie Banford est directrice générale et éditrice chez KO Média. Sophie a plus d’une décennie d’expérience dans le domaine. Au fil des années, elle a porté les chapeaux de rédactrice en chef, de directrice de contenus et d’éditrice pour de nombreuses publications de premier plan, dont Châtelaine, Loulou, Clin d’œil, Moi&cie et Signé M – des marques qui ont prospéré parce qu’elle a su accorder autant d’importance à leurs résultats financiers qu’à la production d’articles percutants et visuellement attrayants. |
![]() Stéphane Monnet is the President and Creative Director of Monnet Design, an award-winning studio based in Toronto, best known for transforming and reinvigorating cultural groups and institutions through thoughtful, dynamic and memorable design. Stéphane is also the President of the Advertising and Design Club of Canada, has guest lectured at OCAD University and sits on Humber College’s Graphic Design Advisory Committee. He has been named among the top designers in Canada by both Design Edge Magazine and The Canadian Design Resource. Monnet Design is a previous recipient of the ADCC’s coveted Canadian Design Studio of the Year award and Stéphane has received 100+ awards from Canadian and international design publications and organizations including Communication Arts, The Type Director’s Club, the AIGA, the ADCC, Graphis, Applied Arts, the National Magazine Awards, and HOW Magazine.
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![]() Stephanie Brown is the Senior Producer of the CBC Indigenous Unit, a national unit working across the country to tell Indigenous stories. Stephanie is a Métis producer who has previously worked for VICE as Executive Producer of Digital, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, The National Film Board and has produced documentaries and series for APTN, SBS Australia, The Tyee and others.
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Stéphanie Verge is the executive editor of Reader’s Digest, the co-editor-in-chief of LSTW and a National Magazine Award–winning writer. She is also the co-author of The Bar Chef: A Modern Approach to Cocktails.
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![]() Sue Carter is editor-in-chief at Quill & Quire and national books columnist for Metro News.
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![]() Susan Langdon is the Executive Director of the award-winning non-profit organization, the Toronto Fashion Incubator (TFI), the world’s first fashion incubator. Susan has been responsible for the daily operation and management of the organization since 1994. For her dedication to the fashion industry and to fostering new talent, Susan has received numerous awards from prestigious organizations such as Ryerson University, City of Toronto, Organization of Women in International Trade and Fashion Group International.
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![]() Susan Scott is the nonfiction editor of The New Quarterly (TNQ), associate director of the Wild Writers Literary Festival and a member of Native-Immigrant arts collective. Works-in-progress include Sainted Dirt: Reckonings with Land, Family, Language, and Imperfect Teaware. Body & Soul, an edited collection of intimate, transgressive essays by diverse women writers, will appear in 2019.
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![]() Tania Jiménez is an independent art director and graphic designer based in Montreal. For the last 20 years, working in different countries, she has been shaping the aesthetics, content, and practical landscape of diverse projects, particularly in editorial design, branding and packaging. She is also co-founder and partner of Caribou magazine.
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![]() Trish Magwood is a food and lifestyle entrepreneur who has spent her career in retail, media and start ups as a business owner. She’s produced and hosted shows for Food Network and done regular guest appearances on Canada and US networks. Trish created and hosted party dish – (Food Network Canada, Slice, Fine Living US and 70 countries worldwide) an entertaining and lifestyle television show sharing her passion and knowledge for food and entertaining. Trish was also a judge on 26 episodes of Food Network Canada’s Family Cook-Off in 2011. Trish has published two cookbooks – the award-winning, best sellers dish entertains (Harper Collins), and In My Mother’s Kitchen (Harper Collins spring 2011). Trish is a freelance food and lifestyle consultant who has written for The Globe & Mail. Trish does frequent appearances and shows on CBC Radio, NBC’s Today Show, Rogers CityLine and BT, CTV’s Canada AM, The Marilyn Denis Show, Canadian Family and Today’s Parent. Trish lives in Toronto with her three children.
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![]() Vicky Lee is the art director of Designlines magazine, as well as the associate art director of the award-winning Azure magazine.
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FINALISTS & WINNERS
The nominees for 2018 will be unveiled on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at 10 AM EST. Follow us on Twitter @magawards or at blog.magazine-awards.com for the most up-to-date news.
The winners will be announced at the 41st Annual National Magazine Awards gala, set for June 1, 2018 at the Arcadian Court in Toronto. Details to follow.