Suzanne Fournier is a journalist and author with a special interest in First Nations and environmental issues. Her first book “Stolen From Our Embrace” was awarded a BC Book Prize, the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. Her book about the Portuguese-Coast Salish history of the Gulf Islands and early BC is called “Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston,” (Harbour Publishing, Nov. 2014), tells the story of a monumental bronze Coast Salish sculpture was erected in Stanley Park. It is a tribute to the early founding families of Reid, Galiano and Vancouver Islands. A former daily newspaper reporter, who covered beats ranging from the environment and education to First Nations, social justice, courts and crime, Ms. Fournier also has written for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and provided commentary to Canadian, US, French and German broadcast media.