Lori Henry, photo by Johann Wall
Currently, Lori Henry works as a freelance writer specializing in Travel, Culture, Health and Hockey. She pens the Western Canada Travel column for Suite101 Media and is the Canada Travel Examiner for Examiner.com. Her freelance work includes such notable publications as Reader’s Digest, FLARE, Western Living, VIA destinations, West, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver View Magazine, HighwaySTAR, Delta Optimist, Langley Advance, TravelMuse, BC Jazz Magazine, Traveling Tales and Martiniboys nightlife magazine. Guidebook work includes Vancouver Explorer: The Complete Residents’ Guide, Best Places Northwest and Fodor’s Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada. She is the Editor of Vancouver-based Massage Matters magazine.
Lori was also the Editor of Beauty: You Define It magazine, a youth publication that dealt with questioning mainstream beauty standards and our culture’s fixation on outward appearance. She is also a published poet, her full-length book, Silent Screams (Second Edition, 2008), has toured high schools and youth groups in the Lower Mainland.
In her other life, Lori is an actor. Leading her Polynesian dance group to various shows, including Expo 86’ and South Pacific, she widened her training to include tap, jazz, ballet, modern, contemporary and hip hop. Not content on the stage, she moved from her hometown of Port Coquitlam to study in the big city of Vancouver, Canada, where she decided to train as an actor. She chose Gastown Actors Studio and studied in their full time theatre program and can now be seen in many productions.
Along with writing and acting, Ms. Henry does advocacy work for eating disorder awareness charities. She sat on the advisory committee of Jessie’s Hope Society (formerly ANAD) and was a Director of the You Are Not Alone Eating Disorder Society. She is currently a Director of Shelley’s Angels Society, providing funding for those who can’t afford treatment.
Follow her travels and adventures on her blog or click on “Home” at the top left of this page.
