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Cea Sunrise Person

Cea is the author of North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both and Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family, and Myself, which chronicle her counterculture wilderness childhood and dramatic move into an international modeling career at age thirteen. She has spoken about her unusual life at a TEDx talk, a high school program for underprivileged students, and a men’s prison, to name a few audiences. She has also taught memoir writing at Vancouver’s Capilano University and, in 2017, served as the writer-in-residence for the Creative Nonfiction MFA course at University of Kings College in Halifax. North of Normal is currently being developed into a feature film. Cea lives in Vancouver with her husband and three children.