Resume / Curriculum Vitae

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Nancy Lyon Dual citizen, US and Canadian. Author, travel columnist, multi-media script writer, photographer, slide show lecturer, translator (French to English) Member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) since 1992, FEWQ Federation of English Language Writers of Quebec B.A. in Journalism and English Literature, Indiana University

Articles published in...

Travel & Music Columns

• Presently syndicating "GONE" travel column in Alternative news weeklies Montreal Mirror, Detroit Metro Times, Kansas City Pitch Weekly, Charlotte Creative Loafing - January 1995 - present
• "Innocents Abroad" (behind the scenes of unusual travel stories) The Gazette January, 1994 - April, 1996
• "Short Hops" (Day Trips from Montreal) The Gazette May to Sept 1987
• "Irish Traditional Music" In Dublin Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, May - October, 1979
• Drama critic for daily Bloomington Courier-Tribune, September 1967 - June 1969
• Arts Editor, photographer and theatre critic for The Indiana Daily Student, 1968-69

CURRENT

• Freelancing travel articles and photographs to Canadian and U.S. publications
• Multimedia travel scriptwriter, ZAQ Technologies, Montreal, 899-0575, Paul Allard president
• "Behind The Scenes" monthly feature (formerly called "What's New") about Montreal attractions and cultural activities, researched and written for the OCTGM (Greater Montreal Convention and Tourism Office / Office des Congrès et du Tourisme du Grand Montréal) published monthly on the OCTGM Web site.

BOOKS

Radio interviews regarding Scatter the Mud

• "Gabereau" CBC Vicki Gabereau April 24, 1996
• "Radio Noon", CBC Toronto, with April 2, 1996
• "Arts Report" with Oliver Irwin, Radio Canada International, World News Service, March, 1996
• "Home Run" David Bronstatter Feb 16, 1996
• "Break Away" Jackie Czernin in Quebec City, Feb, 1996

• Essay on playing music on the streets of Paris "Busking For Supper"

• Back Roads & Hidden Corners c1996;
• Washington's San Juan Islands
• Pennsylvania's Lancaster County
• Vermont's Lake Champlain Valley
• District of Columbia/Maryland's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
• Great American Journeys c1993

• Puerto Rico's El Yunque Rain Forest
• South Carolina Sea Islands
• Arkansas Ozarks
• Alabama Black Belt

Guidebooks:

• Montreal : Insight City Guides Day Trips chapter and six photographs, 1991, 1997
• Rand McNally Tourist Guide and Street Atlas , 1996 author of Tourist Guide and photographs
• Montreal & Quebec City: Access, 1994 Introduction; Plateau Montréal; Montreal Day Trips
• Stephen Birmbaum's Guide to Great Britain and Ireland, 1984 edition, Contributing Editor

CURRENT WORKS IN PROGRESS:

• Looking For the Sans Souci (collection of travel stories)
• Tattooed in Québec (un roman touristique - a touristical novel)

TRAVEL BROCHURES

• Bonjour - à la Montréal, Fall-Winter 1996-97
  for OCTGM (Office des Congrès et du Tourisme du Grand Montréal)
• A Summer to Celebrate - à la Montréal, Summer 1996
  for OCTGM (Office des Congrès et du Tourisme du Grand Montréal)
• Montreal Summer, 1995
  for OCTGM (Office des Congrès et du Tourisme du Grand Montréal)
• Adventure Unlimited Quebec , 1993
• IT'S SNO-MO-BLISS ! Ministère du Tourisme du Québec 1991

TRANSLATIONS

• Photographic Atlas : Images of Canada; Canadian Landscapes,
  Michel Gagné and Erik Graf, published by Photographic Atlas, 1995
• Montreal : Messageries de Presse Benjamin Inc., 1994
• Quebec : Messageries de Presse Benjamin Inc., 1994
• Quebec : A City to Discover
  Messageries de Presses Benjamin Inc., 1994
• Montreal : Botanical Garden, Biodôme, Insectarium, Planetarium
  Messageries de Presses Benjamin Inc., 1993

Magazines

• Globe Trotter, Summer, 1994 (Air Transat) all features articles in issue

• Tourisme-Québec
• ZAQ Technologies

Travels and living abroad

• Canada from Nova Scotia to British Columbia
• Québec, from Anticosti to Povungnituk
• Throughout the US and Mexico
• The Caribbean -- Puerto Rico, Culebra, Vieques, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Jamaica, British Virgin Gorda
• Western Europe -- lived in England, Ireland, France and Switzerland; travelled Spain, Italy, Holland, Germany, Scotland,
• Japan, Australia, India, Malaysia, Northern Africa - Tunisia and the Sahara
• Click here for a special view on current travels