JOHN VAILLANT’s acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction books, The Golden Spruce epi The Tiger, were national bestsellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar’s Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. He has received the Governor General’s Literary Award, British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, Nouvèl Yòkè a, Atlantik la, National Geographic, ak The Walrus. He lives in Vancouver.