Kristine Stallman
Editor/Publisher/Lead Designer

Kristine Stallman is the founder, editor, and designer of Sunrise Trail Magazine. After relocating from Ontario to Nova Scotia in 2019, she and her family made River John their permanent home. In addition to publishing the magazine, Kristine is the owner of Pink Lemonade Creative Media, where she provides marketing and advertising services to help small businesses grow and succeed.

Marshall Feit
Contributor

Marshall Feit is the executive director of the Marigold Cultural Centre in Truro. He is also a member of the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council, a board member for Debut Atlantic, and a founder of Folly House Press. He lives in Central New Annan with his family.

Ashley Crouse
Contributor

Kellie MacMillan
Contributor

Kellie MacMillan is an award-winning sommelier with over two decades of experience in the service industry. Passionate about the intersection of craftsmanship and hospitality, she has cultivated a deep appreciation for the art of food, wine, and design. Based in Wallace, Nova Scotia, Kellie has stepped beyond the traditional restaurant world to create something entirely her own.

Alongside her husband, she transformed a humble shipping container into a thoughtfully curated retail space—a place where vintage charm meets artisanal craftsmanship. Their shop is a testament to their shared vision, showcasing handcrafted pieces that celebrate heritage, creativity, and the beauty of repurposed design. Whether through her expertise in wine or her eye for unique home decor, Kellie brings an inviting warmth and authenticity to everything she does.

Jennifer Langille
Contributor

Jennifer Langille has loved gardens and the natural world since she was a child. Her own garden in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, has brought her immeasurable joy over the years. Jennifer recently completed the Master Gardener program at Dalhousie University, where she learned so much and recognized clearly that the learning never stops. Her passion for growing has evolved into cultivating cut flowers as a small business, which in turn blossomed into a floristry business, Bonnie Blooms. Blending her gardening roots with creative design, she creates florals for weddings, funerals, events and everyday bouquets of joy.

Elizabeth Spence
Contributor

Elizabeth’s interest in gardening began during her childhood in Wales. Her professional life was spent in academia when she had little time for practical gardening, but she did read voraciously on the subject and took many courses from the Royal Horticultural Society. When she moved to a heritage property with four acres in Tatamagouche, she was able to apply the knowledge she had gathered over the years. In her non-gardening life, she directs the Tatamagouche Chamber Ensemble music group and holds piano recitals in her home.

Hannah Martin
Contributor

Hannah Martin grew up on the small, northern coastal bay of Sikue’k (emptying harbour), also known as Brule, Nova Scotia. She is Mi’kmaq-Scottish, and a member of We’kopekwitk (Millbrook) First Nation.

Hannah tends to a small farm on her land in Sikue’k and is the owner of Sikue’k Consulting, through which she offers Indigenous advisory services across Canada.

Hannah creatively expresses her love for nature through writing, photography, tending to her farm, and as a traditional ash basketmaker. It is through these practices and way of life that she awakens the remembrance of her place on and as a part of the land, and is similarly inspired to support others in deepening their relationships to the earth.

Sarah Butland
Contributor

Sarah Butland is a struggling artist, a challenging and challenged mother who always thinks she is failing, an emerging writer and reporter, an author with her name on several books crossing genres and always hoping to find more readers who enjoy them.

She is also a successful artist, a wonderful and thriving mother of one, a reacher towards both people and dreams despite all of the turned backs and obstacles in her way. She is a thriving freelance writer and reporter, an author loved by enough readers to make it worthwhile and a discombobulated conundrum who loves to hear new music, tell new tales and meet new authors. After a brief time in another province, she is happy to report she has returned to her home to a rural area of Pictou County.