Mark Leiren-Young

Mark Leiren-Young is the author of the bestselling Never Shoot a Stampede Queen (Heritage House, 2009), winner of the 2009 Leacock Medal for Humour. Mark's other books are The Green Chain (Heritage House, 2011) and This Crazy Time (Knopf Canada, 2012), written with Canadian environmentalist, Tzeporah Berman. His stage plays have been produced throughout Canada and the US and have also been seen in Europe and Australia. As a journalist he has written for such publications as TIME, Maclean's, Utne Reader and the Walrus and he's currently working as the theatre critic for the Vancouver Sun. Mark
lives in Vancouver, BC.