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Writer, artist & photographer Terry McNamee - Terry McNamee

Terry McNamee began drawing dogs at age 2 and horses at age 5, and started writing seriously around age 14. She published her first freelance articles in her early 20s.

For almost 30 years years, McNamee was a reporter, photographer and editor for various weekly and biweekly community newspapers, writing about a wide diversity of topics. She has won numerous awards for editorials, features and news stories from the Ontario and Canadian Community Newspapers Associations, the Ontario Safety League and the Niagara Health Awards. She also has been a judge for both the OCNA and CCNA awards. These days, she is a professional artist and freelance writer and avid collector of dog and horse models.

She has a strong interest in horses, especially Thoroughbred racing, which was sparked by seeing Northern Dancer win the Kentucky Derby on television in 1964. She became involved with purebred dogs as a teenager, and successfully bred and exhibited Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers in conformation shows, obedience trials and field tests in Canada for more than 25 years under the registered kennel name Rosewood. She is a Life Member of the Canadian Kennel Club and a Level Five graduate of the School of Canine Science, where she learned kennel management, grooming, canine anatomy and physiology and how to judge correct structure and movement.

McNamee currently is doing the final edit on her first book, a young persons' novel about wild horses in the mountains of British Columbia. In addition to writing, she also is continuing to do new dog, horse and nature designs for her CafePress on-line store, Rosewood Studio, at http://www.cafepress.com/rosewoodstudio.