Peter Such was born in England and came as a youngster to Canada in 1953. He worked loading freightcars for the Canadian National Railways and in uranium mines at Elliot Lake. He was a working class member of “the group that revitalized Canadian Literature in the ’70s…no one in Canadian Literature is as eclectic as Peter Such” (Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature). He has written tv series, film documentary, drama, opera librettos, academic works, poetry, short stories, nonfiction and novels. He is also a founder/publisher of Impulse magazine and a former editor of Books in Canada. He is married to artist Joyce Kline. After many years of working in other genres he completed his new novel, Earthbaby, while living in Finland, courtesy of an award from the Finnish Academy.