Nicole Schafenacker, MA

Nicole Schafenacker is a writer, artist, and researcher residing on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon. She holds a BA Honours degree in Drama and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta (Canada) and a Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Northern British Columbia (Canada). In addition to her Masters, she completed a ‘northern specialization’ certificate at Nord University in Bodø, Norway where she focused on the social dimension of climate change in northern regions.

She is the author of two plays, Fish at the Bottom of the Sea and 13 Encounters, and a co-editor of the climate fiction anthology, Our Entangled Future. She was the first artist in residence with the Yukon Chapter of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and a member of the fourth cohort of the FUTURES/forward program at the International Centre of Art for Social Change.