Shayne Morrow is a journalist and writer, who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. For over fifteen years, Morrow was a reporter for the Alberni Valley Times, which afforded him rare access to investigators and lab scientists in the Carolyn Lee and Jessica States murder cases. In 1999, he worked on the CBC Witness documentary The Gene Squad. Since 2011, he has worked as a freelance writer for Ha-Shilth-Sa, the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council news service, and the publication Windspeaker, and is a public affairs associate at Pacific Coast University.