Meet Tina Petrick

Tina Petrick is a novelist, filmmaker, university and college instructor, and lawyer.

The daughter of a teacher mom and a small-business-owner dad, Tina grew up in rural Thunder Bay, Ontario, immersed in nature, play, reading, writing, acting, and dance.

She practiced at top law firms in Vancouver, British Columbia, before venturing into television production, creative non-fiction, and educational technology. She acted as General Counsel, Vice President, and Board Secretary, for an innovative startup at which she was part of the founding team, and she participated in a Canadian tech accelerator. Her pitch won the cohort’s investor favourite award.

Her humour essays have appeared several times in The Globe & Mail, one of which went viral as the newspaper’s most-shared essay of the year on social media. She’s also written for Apple through the creative agency, Critical Mass, and for popular boating magazines. Her short fiction pieces have placed and been short-listed in literary award competitions, including The Fiddlehead’s annual contest. Her first novel, Avery the Dogless Orphan & the Interdimensional Stray, came out in April 2023 under a penname, Prim Pawn, and her first short film, Lempo, directed by her sister, Laura-Lynn Petrick, premiered at the Vox Popular Film Festival where it won the People’s Choice Award. Stream Lempo here (available for a limited time!).

Tina teaches at the University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business.

She enjoys chess, poker, films, trips to mountains and lakes, exercise classes, and anything to do with dancing or the seas.

Photo by Laura-Lynn Petrick

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