Shelley Youngblut connects the world’s best authors with the world’s best audiences as the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She is the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership.
She was the founding editor of Calgary’s award-winning Swerve magazine and has created magazines for ESPN, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Nickelodeon, Western Living and the Globe and Mail. A former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada Am, she is often unconventionally opinionated on CBC Calgary’s Eyeopener and is a regular panellist on Daybreak Alberta’s new Weekend Water Cooler.
