Briony Penn is an award-winning writer, naturalist and environmental activist. She holds a PhD in Geography from Edinburgh University and a BA from the University of British Columbia. Her creative non-fiction includes Following the Good River: The Life and Times of Wa'xaid (Rocky Mountain Books, 2020), winner of the Victoria Butler Book Prize and shortlisted for a BC Book Prize, and Stories from the Magic Canoe (Rocky Mountain Books, 2019), which won the Jeanne Clarke Book Award. Her book The Real Thing: Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan (Rocky Mountain Books, 2015) won the BC Book Prize and the Hamilton Mack Laing Award for Environmental History. A former columnist for Focus Magazine and Monday Magazine, Briony has also written for numerous publications, including Canadian Geographic and Explore Magazine. She lives on Salt Spring Island, BC.