TREVOR HERRIOT is a grassland conservationist and naturalist who writes about human and natural history on the northern Great Plains. His last book, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds was a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and one of Quill & Quire 's 15 Books That Mattered Most in 2009, and it was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Nonfiction).His first book, River in a Dry Land: a Prairie Passage (2000), received several national awards and a nomination for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction. His second book, Jacob's Wound: a Search for the Spirit of Wildness (2004), was nominated for several awards, including a short-listing for the Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.Trevor's writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail and Canadian Geographic , as well as in several anthologies. He has written two radio documentaries for CBC's Ideas and is a regular guest on CBC Radio Saskatchewan's Blue Sky .He and his wife, Karen, have four children and live in Regina.