<b>Ian Ferguson</b> won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for <i>Village of the Small Houses</i> and is the co-author, with his brother Will Ferguson, of <i>How to Be a Canadian,</i> which was shortlisted for the Leacock and which won the CBA Libris Award for non-fiction. He is a contributor to the <i>Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour</i> and has been published in the <i>Globe and Mail, National Post, Reader’s Digest, Maclean’s,</i> and <i>EnRoute,</i> among other publications. For the past ten years, he has worked as a writer and creative director in the film and television industry. He lives in Victoria, BC.