Alma Pearce is an indie freelance writer living in the insatiable city of Vancouver, Canada.
Born in the tiny town of Rosedale (British Columbia), Alma was raised in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, beneath the nightlight of the northern sky. In her primary years, she struggled behind in subjects of reading and writing due to undiagnosed dyslexia. At age ten she wrote her first poem (it was called The Strawberry and spoiler – the strawberry gets turned into a strawberry smoothie), and immediately began calling herself a writer despite her teacher’s well-meaning words: “you can’t be a writer if you don’t know how to spell”. That didn’t stop young Alma from taking poetry commissions on the bus home from school each day, where her peers would prompt her to write about such things as cats, Christmas presents, and mean older siblings. Each poem was illegibly misspelled, so Alma would read her work aloud.
Alma Pearce has since dedicated herself to the pursuit of the arts, reaching into the pool of visual arts, animation, film, music, and photography, but always returning to writing as her first and truest love. She has been granted the BC Achievements Scholarship as well as UBC’s Presidential Scholars Award, speaking to her academic mind and dedication to her craft. At nineteen, she moved to Vancouver and began ghostwriting her first novel – a leap of faith that would change her life forever.
A Bit About It is Alma’s way of giving a little love back to her city, and to all the brilliant souls who share space with her here.