Paul Butler is the author of several novels including 1892, NaGeira, Easton's Gold, Easton, andStoker's Shadow. His work has appeared on the judges' lists for Canada Reads, and he has been a winner in the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards four times since 2003. A graduate of Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, Butler has written for the Globe and Mail, The Beaver, Books in Canada, Atlantic Books Today, and Canadian Geographic, and also contributed to CBC Radio. He lives in St.John's, Newfoundland.