Göran R Buckhorn, a Swede living in Connecticut, is a magazine editor, freelance culture scribe and rowing historian, who has written numerous articles on rowing for books and magazines. He is one of the Directors of Friends of Rowing History and a member of BARJ, the British Association of Rowing Journalists. In March 2009, he founded ’Hear The Boat Sing’ (HTBS), an award-winning rowing history blog, which publishes contributions from the foremost rowing historians and writers in the world.