Monika Ullmann began writing and editing Douglas College EVENT magazine during the mid 'seventies, and after earning a BA in English from SFU in 1978, she worked as house editor for CommCept Publishing. Married to sculptor Peter Paul Ochs, she knew David Marshall, wrote for the Sculptors' Society of B.C. and curated The Age of Bronze exhibition at Images for a Canadian Heritage, a Vancouver Gallery. After several years in the high tech industry as a public relations professional, she became a freelance journalist, writing features on the arts, health and tourism for magazines and newspapers in Vancouver.