Background
Smedman was born c.1959 and raised in North Vancouver, BC, Canada; a suburb of Vancouver. She earned a BA in anthropology from the University of British Columbia and a journalism diploma from Langara College in Vancouver. After her first job as a typesetter for a local publisher, Smedman has spent her entire career working as a reporter and editor at Vancouver-area weekly newspapers. She has worked at the Richmond Review, the Langley Times, and Sounder magazine. Currently, she is an editor at the Vancouver Courier, where she writes local history articles.
Smedman lives in Ladner, British Columbia, a Vancouver suburb. She has bookshelves filled with novels and books on science, history, forensics, religion, and mythology, as well as a vast collection of gaming boxes. Smedman has a young son whom she raises with her partner; the two women married in July 2004.
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