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Matthew Coyte

Matthew Coyte is a journalism student at Concordia University in Montreal who spent time in the offices of RedPoint Media & Marketing Solutions last summer as an intern with Avenue magazine and WestJet Magazine. His work has also been featured in The Globe and Mail, Cult MTL and U Sports. You can usually find him at the hockey arena or searching for the next best burrito joint. Coyte lives by the Marthe Troly-Curtin quote: “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Follow him on Twitter @matthewcoyte16.

Christina Frangou

Christina Frangou is a Calgary-based freelance journalist, who specializes in writing about health and medicine. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Avenue, Chatelaine, Alberta Views and HuffPost. In 2017, she won a National Newspaper Award in long feature writing for a story about her experience as a young widow. A graduate of Carleton University and the London School of Economics, she is also the recipient of multiple Alberta Magazine Awards and has a soft spot for naughty dogs.

Austin Jansen

Austin Jansen recently came on board as Avenue’s junior production designer not long after his graduation from the Alberta College of Art + Design’s visual communications program. When he isn’t designing, you can find him behind his drum kit, watching a good old hockey game or flipping through the latest Monster Children magazine while listening to punk rock. Drawing from his influences of all things skate culture, his creative inspiration is sparked by all different types of music, art and fashion. To him, they all go hand-in-hand.

Sonia Roy

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The first time she watched an image magically emerging from the developer, Sonia Roy fell in love with pictures. After a 10-year detour as a web designer in advertising, television and publishing, Roy is now devoted to her passion: the art of collage. Inspired by portraits, archives and nature photography, she uses all three to assemble visual poems that simultaneously evoke the past and timelessness. Roy loves the challenge of creating editorial illustrations because they are always about new subjects. Her creations have appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines as well as in the advertising industry.

The first morning I helped Stanley down the stairs, the third step creaked. That’s when I found out his wife, Martha always told him to fix it. And now he’s just glad he never did, because that’s home. I love hearing Stanley’s stories about home. And now I get to be a part of them.