​Quinn Tyler Jackson has been a bookseller’s assistant, a freelance editor, a literary agent, an independent publisher, and a mathematician. Born and raised in Western Canada, he spent part of his childhood in logging camps, where radio plays and books were his principal forms of entertainment. After returning to the city, he felt the call to write fiction and approached art with passion and fury. Rather than move directly into authorhood, he first edited and then promoted the work of others as a literary agent before turning more fully to his own writing. His first three novels were published in the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2002.

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Jackson’s award-winning work spans nearly four decades and includes novels, short story collections, poetry, and short fiction published in literary magazines and online journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006 and is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada.

 

He lives on Gabriola Island in British Columbia with his beloved, where they have made their home a cat sanctuary. He continues to write fiction and poetry, paint, compose and perform music, and conduct scientific research.