The Long Run (12 page)

I would like to thank Iain McCurdy and Edward Riche for their thoughts and insight given to earlier drafts of the manuscript. Thanks to James and Rhonda at Breakwater Books. And thanks to Bert Riggs for bringing this, and so many other great Newfoundland stories, to our attention.

J
OAN
S
ULLIVAN
is the editor of the
Newfoundland Quarterly
. As a freelance journalist, her interviews, reviews, and commentary have appeared in
The Telegram
,
The Globe and Mail
, and on CBC Radio’s
Tapestry
. As a playwright, director, and actor, Sullivan has worked with the Atlantic Fringe Festival in Halifax, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and the Document Theatre Collective in St. John’s. Her book
In the Field
, about Stephen Norris of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, won the 2013 Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction. She lives in St. John’s.