Judith Pettersen is a writer from Flin Flon, Manitoba. On her blog “This Northern Life,” she writes philosophically about her husband’s wardrobe, speaks her truth about hipster beards, and lectures on how to go to the bathroom on the side of the road when it’s thirty below. Judith is currently querying her young adult novel, Ellinor, a contemporary fairy tale about a girl, a boy, a wicked stepbrother, and a 1964 Volkswagen.