Brian Harvey grew up on the west coast of Canada. He got his Ph.D. in marine biology after a detour through the Faculty of Music, then spent a decade doing scientific research on fisheries, conservation and small-scale aquaculture in Canada, Asia and Latin America.
In 1995, Brian founded the non-profit World Fisheries Trust to pursue overseas projects. He left WFT in 2005, to devote more time to a writing career that began with Against the Current, a travel column for the Victoria Times-Colonist, followed by another column, Reality Check, for Waters magazine, and science-travel articles for Escape, Westworld and other magazines.
His first trade book, The End of the River (ECW Press, 2009), was chosen as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2009. Said the Globe, “"Harvey has a fascination and deftness with language and its effects, and with the memorable luminescence of a story well told. The End of the River is a brilliant and instructive book, alive with the author's seditious intelligence, his inner compulsions and restlessness."
Brian lives in Victoria, B.C. When he's not writing or working on a fisheries project, he sails and plays the piano.
More information can be found about Brian Harvey on his website: www.brianharvey.org
