Peter Thomas, a devoted fly fisherman, is also the author of three books of poetry. Among his prose works are The Welsher, a novel, and Strangers from a Secret Land, about Welsh settlement in Canada, which won the Welsh Arts Council's annual award for a work of non-fiction, and the Canadian Historical Association Regional History Award. A resident of Fredericton for many years and a former professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, he now lives in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.