The author was born in Cardiff, Wales and immigrated with his parents to Canada in the 1950s. He attended the Vancouver School of art in the 1960s and made his career in commercial art and marketing. He retired from the Government of British Columbia where he was a cartographer and artist working for the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management. With the ministry biologists, botanists, meteorologists and surficial geologist, he mapped the ecological systems of the province. The author is a painter, set designer for the Victoria Operatic Society and fitness instructor at the local Y. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia and travels the world writing about his character Jonathan Owen. He is a bachelor with a daughter, Kim.