Harry Thurston

Born in Nova Scotia, Harry Thurston has been a full-time writer for the last 33 years. His articles on art, culture and environment have appeared in many magazines, including Audubon, Canadian Geographic, Equinox, and National Geographic, and have garnered several national journalism awards. He is the author of twenty books of poetry and non-fiction. A Place Between The Tides, A Naturalist’s Reflections on the Salt Marsh (Greystone Books, Vancouver) was a finalist for the inaugural British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and winner of the Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award in the U.S.  A Ship Portrait, A Novella-in-Verse (Gaspereau Press, Kentville, N.S.) was adapted for the stage in 2007. Recently, Vehicule Press (Montreal) published Animals Of My Own Kind, New and Selected Poems. As an avid fly fisher and active conservationist, he is delighted to be serving as the Haig-Brown Writer-In-Residence.