Darlene A. Ricker

Darlene A. Ricker is a freelance writer who contributes to the Micmac and Maliseet Nations News and edits The Bear River Beat, the L’sitkuk community newsletter. She received an Atlantic Writing Competition award for L’sitkuk from the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia.

She enjoys canoeing and camping through the back country of southwestern Nova Scotia. An employment counsellor at the Annapolis Employment Support Centre, she lives in Bear River with her partner George Chisholm.