Harry Thurston was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1950. He graduated with a BSc. in biology from Acadia University in 1971, and since 1977 has been a full-time poet, journalist, and editor. He has taught poetry at Saint Mary's University and journalism at University of King's College in Halifax, and served as writer-in-residence at Mount Allison, Dalhousie, and Acadia universities. He has been a contributor to more than 30 North American magazines--specializing in environmental issues and natural history--where his articles have garnered several national journalism awards. He is a four-time winner of the Evelyn Richardson Prize for the best non-fiction book by a Nova Scotian and also received the Dartmouth Book Award and Atlantic Booksellers' Choice Award for Tidal Life, A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy. A Place Between The Tides, A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh, was a finalist for the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and the inaugural British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction and winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award in the U.S. A Ship Portrait, A Novella-in-Verse, was a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize and was later adapted for the stage. In 2009-10 he served as the Haig-Brown Writer-in-Residence in Campbell River, B.C. In 2012, he won the inaugural Lane Anderson Award, celebrating the best science writing, for The Atlantic Coast, A Natural History. His latest books are Icarus, Falling of Birds, a long eco-poem, and Lost River, The Waters of Remembrance, a memoir. He currently serves as a Mentor in the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program at University of King's College, in Halifax.