About the Author
Robert Holmgren was born in Prince George, British Columbia, in 1963 to Robert and Peggy Holmgren. He is the second youngest of five children and grew up in the small community of Red Rock.
He graduated from the College of New Caledonia with a Diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology. Early in life, Robert married and divorced before the age of 25, a turning point that set him on a path of movement and experience across western Canada, including Prince George, Cranbrook, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.
He later took on remote work as a technologist based out of Cambridge Bay, contributing to the North Warning System on a seismic array. In 2006, he accepted a one-year contract in Ankara, Turkey. While there, he met and married his soulmate, and together they returned to Cambridge Bay.
Due to logistical realities of life in the North, they eventually settled near Edmonton. At the age of 55, Robert and his wife welcomed a daughter through surrogacy. Today, he continues to work in Cambridge Bay, traveling home on rotation.
Writing as “Jack,” Robert brings a grounded, reflective voice shaped by engineering, distance, and lived experience. His work explores connection, memory, and the quiet patterns that define a life.
About the Author
Robert Holmgren was born in Prince George, British Columbia, and raised in the small community of Red Rock. An electronics technologist by trade, his work has taken him across Canada and into the Arctic, as well as abroad to Ankara, Turkey, where he met his wife.
Now based near Edmonton, Robert continues to work in Cambridge Bay on rotation while raising his daughter with his wife.
Writing as “Jack,” he draws on a life shaped by movement, engineering, and reflection. His work focuses on connection, memory, and the human experience behind the systems we build.