Wayne Grady, one of Canada’s finest literary translators and popular science writers, has won three Science in Society awards from the Canadian Science Writers’ Association and been shortlisted three times for the Governor General's Award for Translation, winning it for Antoine maillet's On the Eighth Day. In 2004 he collaborated with David Suzuki on Tree: A Life Story, a best-seller now in its third printing. He is the author of eight books of non-fiction, translated eight novels and edited six anthologies of short stories. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.