Biography of Liv Kennedy

L iv Kennedy has spent as much of her life on the water as on the land. She was born aboard the Coast Mission ship Columbia and grew up in the logging camps and fishing villages of the British Columbia coast, as her family moved from Port Neville to Hardwicke Island to Sayward to Owen Bay - often towing their house with them when they moved. Her parents later became homesteaders on Quadra Island. Since then, Kennedy has travelled the world in sailboats, yachts, tugs and fishing boats, writing and taking photographs for Pacific Yachting magazine and other publications.

But the area Kennedy knows and loves best is the coast of BC. She has spent some thirty years of her adult life exploring this unique place, with its terrain of lush forests, quiet coves, fierce rapids and mysterious islands, and its settlements that range from forgotten villages to thriving seaports. In the process, she has gathered details of the coast's rich and fascinating history from historical documents and from descendants of the earliest settlers. She has also collected magnificent contemporary photographs, and archival images that were tucked away in small museums and the personal photo albums of people who live on the coast.

The result is Coastal Villages , a glorious celebration of unique spots from Lund and the Wishbone to Cascade Harbour and Shushartie Bay - for anyone who already knows and loves the coast, and for anyone who wants a guide to the area that is as breathtakingly beautiful as the coast itself.

Liv Kennedy lives in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, where she works as a freelance writer. She is co-author of Vancouver Once Upon a Time , and she is a regular contributor to Sea Magazine.