About me
I was in grade six when I got hooked on SF. I grabbed a science fiction book from the school library and it flicked a switch in my imagination that has never gone out. Then I read The Hobbit and eventually Lord of the Rings. I found Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. And then in high school, one of my teachers – Trish Bean, God bless her – assigned us to read Dune, and my soul was transported to a universe of awe and wonder.
Before I finished high school, I was trying to write my first novel.
It stunk.
But I kept at it, writing short stories and novellas, occasionally plays, and now once again nurturing ideas for a novel.
I live in the city of Thunder Bay, in northwestern Ontario, Canada, in the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg peoples and Fort William First Nation. When I’m at my day-job, I’m a social scientist whose work revolves around the human dimensions of managing our natural resources. I generally don’t put an “environmental science fiction” label on my work, but environmental themes and musings about human beings’ economic, cultural and spiritual relationships with nature are often woven into my fiction.
If it’s my environmental social scientist work that you’re looking for rather than my speculative fiction, then visit my other site: The Deliberative Landscapes Wanderer.