Amanda N. Ramsay
Interdisciplinary Storyteller
Welcome, Amanda works on a lot, contributes small things in a lot of places, and sometimes even launches her own projects. If you are looking for something in particular, please scroll below to find what you are looking for:
About Amanda
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About Amanda
Creative Bad@ss.
Amanda Nicole Ramsay is a Northern British Columbia, Canada-based interdisciplinary storyteller.Amanda enjoys exploring the nuances of women's lives that don't always make it into literature.Amanda would also like to thank the coastal nations that are leading the way with strength and integrity in matters of environmental protection, human rights, and inter-generational healing and reconciliation.Amanda especially admires the work of the Tsimshian people; the Gitga'at First Nation, the Metlakatla, the Lax Kw'alaams, the Kitsumkalum, the Kitselas, the Xai'xais (Kitasoo) people. For more details about the nations Amanda admires, please scroll below to "Where I am From."
Projects & Work
Profile - Jill of Many Trades
For the last few years, Amanda has been researching and writing content for a podcast she is relaunching this spring called West Coast Acadian.In her spare time Amanda has begun the journey of teaching herself audio and audio visual recording and editing because she wants to ensure her work always reaches a specific level of quality.Her primary form of creative and artistic expression is writing and prose. She's self-published books to see if she could. She has also finished multiple novel-length projects and always has another on the go.Amanda heals herself through painting and sculptural pieces, primarily working in acrylics and mineral based texture mediums. Amanda mixes many of her own colours, mixes her own texture pastes, plasters, and papier mâché.Amanda sculpts using multiple additional media including foam, soft stone, reclaimed materials, cardboard, softwoods, fibres and fabrics.#staytuned.
1. COMING SOON - West Coast Acadian, the Podcast
If you would like to support the work on this podcast, choose your favourite or all of: joining the mailing list on the podcast official website (domain coming soon!) or subscribe to our channel on YouTube for our episodes as soon as we launch.
2. FolkWoman Publishing & Fine Arts
Amanda is hoping to sell her art at Farmer's Market (Terrace BC) this season (2026) as she would like to finally gauge market reaction.When Amanda publishes or sells art online, she posts it under the psudonymn FolkWoman (Publishing) or (Creations).Under these names Amanda hopes to build a diverse portfolio of visual art, sculptures, digital art, colouring pages, stickers, and other creations.For West Coast Acadian, Amanda has designed items for sale to support the podcast, see below (colouring pages, merchandise, story packets, etc.)
3. Performer & Creative Communications
Amanda now gives talks and workshops on gender, the arts, and uses her platform to explore women’s voices in history and myth. Educated in Political Science / History / English Literature, Amanda uses her education to analyze media, communications, and social movements for others.Amanda is currently on contract recording an audio book and will share more when she can.
Where Is Amanda From?
Amanda was born in a small industry town called Kitimat BC on the traditional territories of the Haisla. Amanda has also lived, worked, and gone to school in over a dozen communities but always returns home to the Pacific North-North West.Currently Amanda lives in Terrace, on the shared traditional territories and unceeded lands of the Tsymsyen peoples.BC is where she is raising her son, attending events, and witnessing herr communities' realities.As a settler woman, Amanda acknowledges the traditional, unceeded, and sometimes treaty territories of the following nations who she calls neighbours: Tsimshian, Nisga'a, Gitxsan, Heiltsuk, Haisla, Haida, Tlingit, Sekani, Wet’suwet’en, Metis, Takla, Ts’il Kaz Koh, Nee Tahi Buhn, Skin Tyee, Cheslatta Carrier, Carrier Sekani, Lheidli T'enneh, Kluskus, Nazko, Fort Nelson First Nation, Dease River First Nation, Daylu Dena, Taku River Tlingit, and others she has met along her life's adventures.Amanda will often say "We live in a postcard," and that wouldn't be true without the work and advocacy of our local first nations, councils, and matriarchs; and moreso, the leadership of a diverse cast that keep our communities alive.
Contact
You can reach Amanda via the following ways:
By email at: [email protected]
By snail mail at:
Amanda Ramsay
PO Box 467
Terrace PO Main
Terrace, BC
V8G 4B5
Want to.....Coffee..Collab..Advocate..Witness?
Amanda has a flexible but busy schedule. If you would like her to attend an event, collaborate on a project, speak on something, or offer opinion, please reach out and contact her. While she admits to hiding under rocks and in tunnels, Amanda does in fact like people a lot.Please fill out this form and give her a picture of what you are looking for. Amanda loves detail.Hate forms? Email her directly at WestCoastAcadian (at) gmail (dot) com.
