Before turning to fiction, Ken MacQueen spent 15 years as Vancouver bureau chief for Maclean’s, Canada’s newsmagazine, winning multiple National Magazine Awards and nominations. He travelled the world writing features and breaking news for the magazine, and previously for two national news agencies. He also covered nine Olympic Games and drew Jake Ockham’s athletic prowess from tracking elite rowers in training and on podiums in Athens, Beijing and London. He and his wife, Ros Guggi, divide their time between Vancouver's North Shore and British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.