Trevor Herriot

Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist and writer. During his time as the Haig-Brown Writer-in-Residence in Campbell River he has been working on a non-fiction book, a personal inquiry into questions of male spirituality, sexuality, and maturity, as they affect our bonds to community and place.

His most recent book was Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds (HarperCollins, February, 2009). It won two Saskatchewan Book Awards, and was short-listed for the Writer’s Trust Non-fiction Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (non-fiction). His first two books, River in a Dry Land: a Prairie Passage (McClelland & Stewart, 2000), and Jacob’s Wound: a Search for the Spirit of Wildness (M&S, 2004), received several awards and nominations. His writing has appeared in the Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic, and several anthologies. He has written two radio documentaries for CBC Ideas and is a monthly guest on CBC Radio Saskatchewan’s Blue Sky. Trevor’s blog, “Grass Notes” (trevorherriot.blogspot.com) discusses some of the stories and issues he addresses in his books. He lives in Regina with his wife Karen and their four children.