Robin Rowland is an author, playwright, nature photographer and visual journalist who lives, writes and works in Kitimat (“A Wonder of Nature and Industry”) on the northwestern coast of British Columbia, Canada, in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation.

For most of his “day job” career Robin worked as a journalist mainly with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s CBC News, as a photo editor, producer, web producer and lineup editor.

In his creative career, Robin has mainly divided his time and focus between two different endeavours.

First he has investigated, researched and written historical narratives. Two book uncovered the lost history of Prohibition in Canada. King of the Mob was the biography of Rocco Perri, known as Canada’s Al Capone. Undercover Cases of the RCMP’s Most Secret Operative was the biography of Frank Zaneth, the first specially assigned undercover detective in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A River Kwai Story The Sonkrai Tribunal (published by Allen and Unwin in Australia)told the storyof a notorious prisoner of war camp on the Burma Thailand Railway and the subsequent war crimes trial of the Japanses guards.

Second, an equally important, he writes science fiction and fantasy. His recent anthology contributions are Aranazu Banks in the horror anthology Canadian Dreadful; Mother of Stars, in Dreaming the Goddess; Dragon Hunter in Citadels of Darkover and Tricky Things (co written with Deborah Ross) in Crossroads of Darkover

But that’s not all. Robin is best known for co-writing the first popular manual onh how to search the internet. Researching on the Internet was published in 1995, several years before Google was founded.

Add to that his work as a playwright with three radio plays produced by the CBC. His radio plays A Truthful Witness (Scales of Justice) King of the Bootleggers (Morningside Drama written with James Dubro) and Hot Coffee (Morningside Drama) were produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp in the 1980s. He currently has two stage plays out in the world for production.

Since he moved to Kitimat in 2010, Robin has worked as an independent journalist filing photographs, video and stories for wire services, newspapers, website and television networks covering northwestern British Columbia.

He has a number of SFF works in progress, including a far future climate fiction novel, an urban fantasy. In non fiction he is working on a number of projects related to his fourth great grandfather, William Pennell, who was a British diplomat to who spied on the South Atlantic slave trade.