Chris Wood has worked as a full-time journalist, mainly in magazines, for over thirty years, with stories featured in Maclean's, the CBC, the Globe & Mail, and most recently, The Tyee, The Walrus and Reader's Digest Canada. Wood's most recent book, Dry Spring:The Coming Water Crisis of North America, published in April 2008, has been called arresting, vivid, provocative, and, a great read by reviewers and media. He is the author of six other books, including an award-winning Young Adult Fiction series with my wife, Beverley Wood. He lives in Ladysmith, British Columbia.