Trina Moyles

Trina Moyles is a Yukon-based environmental journalist, author, and filmmaker. The daughter of a wildlife biologist in northwestern Alberta, she learned early to coexist with black bears, wolves, lynx, moose, and woodland caribou. A former fire tower lookout, Moyles draws deeply from her lived experiences in the northern wilderness.

Her non-fiction debut, Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World, explored global connections between gender and food sovereignty. A finalist for the High Plains Literary Awards, it has been adapted into a forthcoming 2026 documentary.

Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest, a memoir recounting seven seasons in Alberta’s fire towers, won the National Outdoor Book Award (2021) and Alberta Memoir Award (2022).

Moyles’s most recent book, Black Bear, offers an intimate portrait of human-bear coexistence and the shifting ethics of wildlife management, drawing from Indigenous knowledge. Interwoven is a reflection on the Alberta oil sands and their toll on people and ecosystems — including her brother, whom she lost to suicide in 2022.