Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media, a publishing and consulting company with specialties including computer vision and medical imaging. Since 2015, he has written a large part of Packt's library of technical books on OpenCV. Joseph is also the author of an award-winning novel series, Next Year's Snow, which follows a Soviet/Ukrainian family through several generations to the present day.