Ann-Lee Switzer is a historian, researcher, and writer with an interest in the Japanese Canadian experience as well as the work of Emily Carr. She is the editor of This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr, which she discovered in the BC Archives. She is co-author, with her husband, Gordon, of Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community, which won second prize in the BC Historical Federation’s historical writing awards in 2013. Over the years she has written for magazines and newspapers. She and her husband live in Victoria, BC.