Dina O'Meara landed in Alberta in 1980 after having lived in North and South America, Asia and Israel. Upon freezing her hair for the first time on a beautifully bright -
but -40C - day in Edmonton, she became enamoured of the possibilities and contradictions of this province. For almost 20 years she has worked as a journalist, writing about most corners of Alberta, from knuckle jumpers at the Arctic Winter Games in Slave Lake, to the fact Medicine Hat stocks rattlesnake anti-venom in its hospital because it has to. Dina now works and lives in Calgary, where it's a quick ride out to the windswept prairies or to all kinds of hiking trails in the mountains.