Nils Ling is an author, playwright, humorist, filmmaker, and stage performer who lives and writes in the tiny community of Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island. He is a former CBC Radio columnist and host who wrote and toured for a decade with one of the most successful one-man shows in Canadian theatre history, The Truth About Daughters. He is currently researching and writing his third book, a non-fiction work about dealing with grief over the loss of an infant with the working title The Stolen Child.