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About the Author

Head shot of Edward Willett.

Edward Willett is the author of more than 60 books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Marseguro (DAW Books) won the Aurora Award (honouring the best in Canadian science fiction and fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009, and the second book in the Double Helix duology, Terra Insegura, was short-listed the following year. His young adult fantasy Spirit Singer (Tyche Books) won the Regina Book Award at the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Several other of his books have been shortlisted for both the Aurora and the Saskatchewan Book Awards.

Willett’s eighth novel for DAW, The Cityborn, came out in July 2017; his ninth, Worldshaper, launches a new fantasy/science fiction series for DAW in September 2018. Other recent titles include the Masks of Aygrima trilogy for DAW (written as E.C. Blake), the two-book Peregrine Rising far-future science fiction duology for Bundoran Press, and the five-book Shards of Excalibur YA fantasy series for Coteau Books. His non-fiction runs the gamut from science books to biographies to history.

Born in Silver City, New Mexico, Ed moved to Saskatchewan with his parents from Texas when he was eight years old, and grew up in Weyburn, where his father taught at Western Christian College. He earned a B.A. in journalism from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, and returned to Weyburn to being his career at the weekly Weyburn Review, first as a reporter/photographer (and columnist and cartoonist), and eventually as news editor. He moved to Regina in 1988 to become communications officer for the then-fledgling Saskatchewan Science Centre, and became a full-time freelance writer in 1993.

For two decades Ed wrote a weekly science column that appeared in the Regina Leader Post and assorted other newspapers; an audio version also ran weekly on CBC Radio’s Afternoon Edition in Regina for seventeen of those years. He has also appeared on CBC TV nationally to talk about science topics.

In addition to writing, Ed is a professional actor and singer who has performed in numerous plays, musicals, and operas, as well as singing with various choirs, including the Canadian Chamber Choir, and, currently, the Prairie Chamber Choir. He lives in Regina with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P. Eng., a past president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan, and their teenaged daughter, Alice.

You can find Ed online at www.edwardwillett.com.