Trina Moyles

Opinion: As Canada rushes megaprojects, a mental-health crisis in the oil sands remains largely hidden Isolation, long hours and separation from family contribute to workers’ stress, experts say

My latest for @theglobeandmail.com

In the wake of Canada’s push for megadevelopment projects, however, the stakes are high. With major pipelines, ports, and mining projects looming on Canada’s agenda, there’s a sense of urgency that will come with social costs.

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears As a daughter of a wildlife biologist growing up in the Canadian wilderness, I’ve been fascinated with bears since I was a child. When I was only five years old, my father brought home an orphaned …

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears? @trinamoyles.bsky.social on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

Spoiler: Women are choosing the bear, in more ways than one. #bears #bearsky

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears As a daughter of a wildlife biologist growing up in the Canadian wilderness, I’ve been fascinated with bears since I was a child. When I was only five years old, my father brought home an orphaned …

@trinamoyles.bsky.social explores the women adding their voices to the canon of bear literature.

MFA alum Trina Moyles’ memoir, “Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival” is now available from Penguin Random House Canada.

Learn more: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/742032...

@trinamoyles.bsky.social

Oh my god!!! Horrific. Heart breaking.

On the left: Illustration of two blue jugs on a beige background. On the right: text that reads “ The Yukon’s most important piece of infrastructure is a plastic blue jug. Hauling water is how thousands make an increasingly unaffordable North livable.”

In Whitehorse, dry cabins without running water rent for up to $1,600/month. Blue jugs—once a camping accessory—are now essential vessels for a growing demographic living off-grid in one of Canada’s most expensive housing markets. https://ow.ly/GtWy50YatWU

So sad!

Would love to chat with you about the themes of the book!

Sister Bear - Orion Magazine On bears, oil, addiction, and empathy

If you look long enough, you can see yourself—and your relationships—in the natural world around you. It just requires a different kind of looking.

@trinamoyles.bsky.social on leaning into paradoxes, in her own family and beyond.

On the left: A black-and-white illustration of a black bear in a forest. On the left: text that reads “What a standoff with a black bear taught me about life in northern Alberta. Working as a fire tower lookout meant regularly confronting wildlife.”

Would you spend six months in a stretch of remote wilderness enclosed by an electric fence? Trina Moyles did. But her fourth season as a fire tower lookout brought about an encounter that made her realize the boundaries of the wild are never truly fixed. https://ow.ly/HRS250XZTIr

Sister Bear - Orion Magazine On bears, oil, addiction, and empathy

“Bear cubs, after being weaned by their mother,” writes @trinamoyles.bsky.social, “would often stick together and face the forest as two… The sibling relationship in any species—solitary or social—is one of the most formative for learning how to be and survive in the world.”

Woohoo @trinamoyles.bsky.social!

Thanks Iryn! So wild!

On the left: A black-and-white illustration of a black bear in a forest. On the left: text that reads “What a standoff with a black bear taught me about life in northern Alberta. Working as a fire tower lookout meant regularly confronting wildlife.”

From her first meeting with a bear cub as a child to her standoff with a sow as an adult, @trinamoyles.bsky.social knows how it feels to love what you also fear. Here, she reflects on how this contradiction informed her relationship with the wilds of northern Alberta: https://ow.ly/HZTU50XYhuZ

Black Bear ambled onto @theglobeandmail.com & @thestar.com’s national bestseller list this week. Thank you to everyone for reading!

So thrilled and a tad nervous! Congratulations to all the writers on the list!

Bear watch: Trina Moyles writes about bears and siblings in new memoir What began as a memoir about her observations of black bears in northern Alberta became a story about grief, loss and siblinghood

A beautifully observed review of Black Bear in @calgaryherald.com by @ericvolmers.bsky.social. See you in Calgary on Jan. 15 7 PM at @wordfest.com in conversation with Kevin Van Tighem.

Official book trailer for Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival (Knopf Canada, Pegasus Books) out today in Canada and the U.S.

Available anywhere you get your books!

Book review of Black Bear by Trina Moyles Trina Moyles’ graceful debut memoir navigates sibling love and loss, and deserves a space among the ranks of the very best nature writing.

Starred reviews for Black Bear in @readbookpage.bsky.social and @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Writer Alice Cary says, “Black Bear is reminiscent of the very best nature writing, belonging on the shelf with Raising Hare, H Is for Hawk and Late Migrations.”

What a surreal week! Thank you for reading.

Wordfest presents Trina Moyles - Wordfest Join us for an illuminating conversation with Trina Moyles about her latest book, Black Bear, a dazzling memoir about one woman’s coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation ...

@wordfest.com is hosting @trinamoyles.bsky.social in Calgary next Thursday. Come see her. She's amazing. wordfest.com/2025/show/wo...

Iconic Yukon sled dog races adapt to thin ice and a changing climate | The Narwhal Can the Yukon Quest sled dog race survive in the face of climate change and rising costs?

The iconic Yukon Quest will not run in 2026, the sled dog race organizers confirmed this week. The Narwhal reported from last year’s race, covering how climate change has disrupted the beloved northern tradition. Revisit @trinamoyles.bsky.social's story here: thenarwhal.ca/yukon-sled-d...

Thanks Jo! Excited for our event!

Thanks Eva!

Black Bear by Trina Moyles | Penguin Random House Canada A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss.

Happy happy pub day to @trinamoyles.bsky.social! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of BLACK BEAR.

Such a phenomenal book by @trinamoyles.bsky.social. Had a sneak preview and can’t recommend it enough!

#borealbears

Humans and Bears Have Something BIG in Common... YouTube video by Real Talk Ryan Jespersen

Humans and bears have something BIG in common.

Black Bear author @trinamoyles.bsky.social says we need to rethink our entire relationship with this magnificent animal.

Do you have a bear story? 🐻

👀 FULL: rtrj.info/010626Trina

🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/010626 #RealTalkRJ #bears

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Review | A woman’s life among black bears taught her a lot about being human Trina Moyles’s memoir, “Black Bear,” examines her experiences in wilderness and her contentious relationship with her brother.

“a full-throated memoir that asks — indeed, that seeks fervently to understand — how our species can live alongside wildlife, like the black bear, without exerting our dominance…But it is also a story about the oft-fraught business of living together with humans, and of loving them.”

Book 195: Black Bear by @trinamoyles.bsky.social

Black Bear: Trina Moyles on coming of age in Alberta | The Narwhal In an excerpt from ‘Black Bear,’ author Trina Moyles recalls lessons on surviving the many threats of a young life in rural Alberta

Growing up as a teenage girl in northern Alberta, @trinamoyles.bsky.social learned to live with bears — and to navigate the hard-living culture of a resource-dependent town. Here's an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, which dives into those lessons: thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles...

Confronting the Bear — Trina Moyles Why I Chose to Write a Book About Bears

“Why did I want to write about bears? Maybe because it’s easier to write about our relationship to bears—and the big emotions they provoke in us—fear, awe, revelation, hate—than it is to confront our own human relationships, far more fraught with risk, harm, and pain.”