Trevor Ferguson was born in Huron County, Ontario, in 1947. His first novel, High Water Chants, was published in 1977. Trevor's subsequent novels, Onyx John, published in 1985 by McClelland & Stewart, and The Kinkajou, in 1989, received rave reviews across the country. In the spring of 1993, Trevor's fourth novel, The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater, was published by Harper Collins. He won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction for his novel The Timekeeper. Ferguson also writes under the pen-name John Farrow. He has written City of Ice, Ice Lake and River City under John Farrow. Trevor is past-Chairman of the Writers' Union of Canada, and he has been the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, and Red River Community College in Winnipeg.