Trina Moyles
Trina Moyles is an author, environmental journalist, and creative producer. Her debut book, Women Who Dig, was a finalist for the High Plains Literary Awards and is being adapted into a documentary film. Her first memoir, Lookout, won a National Outdoor Book Award and the inaugural Memoir Award at the Alberta Literary Awards. In 2022, Moyles received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the province’s highest honour for the arts. She currently lives in Whitehorse.
Writers & Books
Award History
2026 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
forBlack Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival
Jury Citation
“Trina Moyles’ Black Bear is a masterclass in prosaically weaving together the personal with the political. Armed with a familial life primed in rurality, Moyles oversees, literally and literarily, the ongoing anthropocentric realities of Western Canada from a fire-tower lookout in Northern Alberta. Black Bear is a rude awakening for us all to the violent effects of petroculture and climate change that is tracked not only through the black bears she observes but also through the mirrored narrative of her brother and his struggles with prairie masculinities substance abuse, and the Albertan oil sands. Moyles writes with an economy of language that is deeply embedded in prairie vernaculars and with a stylistic warmth that highlights her deep reverence of the lands she so carefully stewards.”—2026 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction (Katherine Ashenburg, Debra Thompson, Joshua Whitehead)Works Recognized by WT