Peter Kingsmill was born and raised near Montréal but soon after high school and a couple of years in Vermont, chose to move west, first to British Columbia then eventually settling in Saskatchewan. He has worked at an eclectic mix of tasks - reporter and editor, logger, trucker, cattle farmer, and riverboat captain. Peter and his wife Valerie* live at Hafford, Saskatchewan, near Redberry Lake where his efforts resulted in being presented with the Governor General of Canada’s Conservation Award in 1991. Peter is past-chair and founding director of the Redberry Lake (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserve. He currently serves as publications editor with the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists and works as a consultant on regional development projects when he is not writing a novel or spending time on his beloved Redberry Lake.