[1][2][3] She won the Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award for her debut memoir, The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out (Dundurn Press 2019) and was a finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Nonfiction Prize.

Armstrong spent the majority of her childhood in British Columbia: Kelowna, Fort St John, Williams Lake, Vernon, and Abbotsford.

Armstrong, CD, served as a Supply Logistics Officer (Air) in the Canadian Armed Forces (1980-1993) at CFB Kingston, NDHQ Ottawa, and 1CFSD Toronto.

[6] Armstrong lives in Nelson, British Columbia, with her husband, Rick Kutzner, and their three black Labrador retrievers.

Armstrong is a graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia and is working on her first novel.