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Staff

Legacy management and staff include a wide range of writers, editors, researchers, authors, and marketing and design specialists, including:

Barbara Dacks

Owner/Publisher

Barbara Dacks has been a writer, editor, and broadcaster for more than 30 years. As a freelance writer, her non-fiction articles have appeared in Maclean’s, America West, Western Living, and Edmonton magazines, among others; her fiction in Other Voices and on CKUA. She contributed a chapter, "Risking Business," to Consciousness Rising, a Women’s Studies text. She was a news reporter for CBC, scriptwriter for ITV, regular interviewer for CKUA, and has taught non-fiction and creative writing.

Eva Radford

Associate Editor

Eva Radford’s love of reading led her from a career as a librarian to that of an editor – work that she has enjoyed for more than 25 years. She has worked for Hurtig Publishers, NeWest Press, Reidmore Books, The University of Alberta Press, Lone Pine Press, Oz New Media, Green Learning, Alberta Learning and Duval House Publishing.

Yoko Sekiya

General Manager

Yoko Sekiya has been in the publishing business for more than 25 years, and brings to Legacy a wealth of knowledge relating to administration and accounting. Her spirit of adventure brought her to Canada from Japan in her early 20s. She has lived in Toronto or Edmonton ever since.

Mary Oakwell

General Manager

Mary Oakwell is a freelance writer who has published two Alberta-based books, Tea Time in Alberta, and Many Foundations: Historic Churches of Alberta, as well as many articles for magazines. She lives in Edmonton and is currently working on her next book of non-fiction, based on the ten-month experience of renovating a very old house.

Naomi K. Lewis

Associate Editor

Naomi K. Lewis holds degrees in philosophy and English, and wrote and edited catalogues and promotional materials for Scholarly Book Services, Inc. before finding her way to Legacy. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in magazines and journals across Canada, and she is the author of one novel, Cricket in a Fist. She writes and teaches in Calgary.

Andrea Kopylech

Advertising and Retail Manager

Andrea Kopylech graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA in English and Ukrainian Literature. She has worked in sales for over 13 years, and since making her way to Legacy in 2000, has diversified her career with freelance writing and editing. She has published several magazine articles and book reviews, and when not chasing her little ones, she continues to work on a variety of writing and translation projects.

Mark Dutton

Designer/Art Director

Mark Dutton (Halkier + Dutton Design) has worked as a designer in Edmonton for more than 20 years. He has won design awards from Canadian Association for University Continuing Education, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Alberta Recording Industry for Album Cover of the Year, and from the International Association of Business Communicators.

Winter 2009
Complete Contents of Current Issue

After 14 years, Winter 2009 is our 56th issue of Legacy and our last.

As Legacy's publisher/editor/owner, I have been fortunate to work with remarkable people. My sincere thanks to our thoughtful associate publisher Gurston Dacks and encouraging business psychiatrist/music columnist Ron Chalmers. To talented, remarkable designer Mark Dutton. To patient general managers Mary Oakwell, Liz Grieve, and Yoko Sekiya; and determined ad sales manager Andrea Kopylech. And to two of the best, most sensitive associate editors, Eva Radford and Naomi Lewis. Thank you, also, to the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation for supporting school subscriptions and to Enbridge, Elly de Jongh, and Melcor Developments for public library subscriptions. To the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for editorial support. And to our committed advertisers and many loyal readers.

I have looked forward each issue to wonderfully written columns by Paula Simons, Sid Marty, Ron Chalmers, Laurie Greenwood, Johanne Yakula, Dorothy Field, Gordon Morash, and Patricia Myers. And to beautifully crafted prose and poetry by well-known and emerging writers alike.

But I have decided that Legacy's own story will conclude now. Indeed, it has been fun. Thank you all beyond words.

Barb Dacks, Publisher