TREVOR FERGUSON was born in Huron County, Ontario, in 1947 and raised in Montreal from the age of three.

In his mid-teens, he began a lengthy tenure of travel and worked in various locales. He gravitated toward Canada's northwest where he worked on construction crews and railroad gangs, initially as a kitchen 'flunky', then as a bridgeman, eventually as an operator of heavy equipment. During this period he began to write, working at night in the bunkhouses.

In his mid-twenties he travelled and worked throughout Europe and the United States before he returned to Montreal to continue writing. He settled into driving a taxi by night and writing by day, until the publication of his first novel in 1977, High Water Chants (Macmillan).

Trevor's second novel, Onyx John, published in 1985 by McClelland & Stewart, was accorded rave reviews across the country. A similar reception awaited his third book, The Kinkajou, in 1989 (Macmillan; M&S Paperbacks, 1990).

In the spring of 1993, Trevor's fourth novel, The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater, was published by HarperCollins. The story of how that book came into being was described in the February, 1993 issue of SaturdayNight Magazine. The paperback edition was published by HarperCollins in the spring of 1994.

Trevor Ferguson's most recent novels are The Fire Line (1995) and The Timekeeper (1996), both published by HarperCollins and re-issued as trade paperbacks.

Trevor is past-Chairman of the Writers' Union of Canada, and he has been the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, and Red River Community College in Winnipeg. His permanent home is in Montreal, where he lives with his wife, Lynne, and continues to write fiction.