Krista Wallace, Writer and Performing Artist
Krista is a musician, writer and actor who has hovered around the Tri-Cities for most of her life. As a writer she works primarily in Fantasy, but has dabbled in other genres, in both short and long fiction. Her stories are published in Pulp Literature magazine, Heart's Kiss, electricspec.org and 49th Parallels (an Aurora nominated anthology from Bundoran Press).
She has her BFA in Theatre from UVic. Favourite roles were in productions of The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera, among others. More recently she played "Mrs. Pearce" in My Fair Lady with Royal City Musical Theatre. Krista and her family co-created and performed a play called All These People Watching for the Victoria Fringe Festival. Her desire to support the arts for young people led her to work as Musical Director for a number of high school productions (Seussical Jr., Les Miserables, Hairspray, Urinetown, In the Heights, Rent, etc.).
Since 1994 she has applied her acting skills as a Standardized/Simulated Patient, helping to train and license a full spectrum of health care professionals in BC.
Krista sang with the Vancouver Bach Choir and the Felice Women's Choir for several years each, had a rock cover band for a dozen years, and was a founding member of R&B band Double Overtime. She has been the vocalist for the big band, FAT Jazz for over twenty years, and is half of a jazz duo called the Itty Bitty Big Band.
Combining all the above with her expansion into audiobook narration, she decided to launch a podcast of her own work. Once each full story has been podcast, she is putting it out as an audiobook, so her first novel, Gatekeeper's Key is now available.
““What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?””
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