Chris Benjamin is the author of four previous award-winning books. His most recent is Boy With A Problem, which was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction. He is also a freelance features writer and magazine editor.

Benjamin is a freelance editor and journalist and an author of fiction and non-fiction. He is the editor of Atlantic Books Today. His previous book was a short story collection, Boy With A Problem, which was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction. His latest nonfiction book was Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School. It won the Dave Greber Freelance Book Prize before being published. His previous book, Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada, won the Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and was a finalist for the Richardson Non-Fiction Prize. A series of short video documentaries has been made based on the book, available at ecoinnovators.org. Chris's novel, Drive-by Saviours, won the H.R. Percy Prize, was longlisted for a ReLit Prize and made the Canada Reads Top Essential Books List.