Eva Holland

Eva Holland is a freelance writer and editor based in Canada’s northern Yukon Territory. She is the co-editor of World Hum and a former associate editor at Up Here, Canada’s 2010 magazine of the year. Throughout 2015, she’s writing a bi-weekly online column about the changing North American Arctic for Pacific Standard, and serving as the Yukon correspondent for Up Here. Her work has also appeared in Smithsonian, AFAR, Maisonneuve, SB Nation Longform, and Outside Online, and has frequently been featured by Longform, Longreads, Nieman Storyboard, Lady Journos, and other curators of journalism and nonfiction writing.

Features, UncategorizedNovember 1, 2011

In the Bush

By Eva Holland

On the other end of the line my mother’s phone was ringing, but the familiar tones sounded distant, thin and faded.