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Briony Penn

Briony Penn is an award-winning writer of creative non-fiction books as well as a contributor to many anthologies and chapter books. She has been a feature writer and columnist for decades, with over five hundred articles on environmental issues and natural history in newspapers, magazines, government publications, online news sources and peer-reviewed journals. She has also written numerous environmental guides and educational handbooks for teachers in British Columbia. Her first book with RMB, The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan, was the winner of the 2015 BC Book Prize. Her work with Cecil Paul will continue with the publication of a comprehensive and collaborative biography, Following the Good River: Stories from the Magic Canoe of Cecil Paul, which will be published by RMB in the autumn of 2019. Briony lives on Salt Spring Island, BC.

Books by Briony Penn

Voices for the Islands

Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea

by (author) Sheila Harrington
foreword by Briony Penn

The Priest Who Left His Religion

In Pursuit of Cosmic Spirituality

by (author) John Shields
foreword by Briony Penn

Following the Good River

The Life and Times of Wa'xaid

by (author) Briony Penn
with Cecil Paul

Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid

by (author) Cecil Paul
as told by Briony Penn

A Year on the Wild Side

A West Coast Naturalist's Almanac

by (author) Briony Penn

The Real Thing

The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan

as told by Briony Penn

Kids Book of Canadian Geography, The

illustrated by Briony Penn

A Year on the Wild Side

by (author) Briony Penn