Description: The word 'pirate' conjures up images of the swashbuckling men featured in the likes of Black Sails and Pirates of the Caribbean, but the world of piracy has a centuries-long history that is filled with little-known women who wielded real power in a man's world long before they were able to even vote in democratic elections.
Brief description: Roxanne Gregory is an award-winning WGC screenwriter, author and recovering journalist. She has been a segment producer for BBC1/Nine Network Australia and Canwest Global (news). She was a print journalist for Canadian Press, and The Province, a Vancouver daily. She is author of Dark Angel of Whitechapel (2020); Sketches from Haida Gwaii (2021); Boudicca's Revenge; Klondike King and Queen's Mate; Meet Corona (2020), and Working the Tides. Her story "The Tell" is featured in Canada's premier sci-fi anthology Tesseracts 20.