Mark Dickinson teaches in the School for the Study of Canada / École d’études canadiennes at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. His work has appeared in different magazines, newspapers, and periodicals, including The Walrus and The Times of London. Originally from British Columbia, he was a Canada World Youth participant on the Québec-Indonesia exchange in 1994/95, and later returned to Indonesia to work on a sustainable development project in the Sumatran rainforest. This is his fourth book.