Vernon Oickle graduated from Lethbridge Community College in 1982 with an honours diploma in journalism and is an award-winning journalist, editor and writer with almost 35 years working in newspapers. He is the author of 26 books, including Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, the best- selling Crow series and the Nova Scotia Outstanding Outhouse Reader. He resides in Liverpool where he was born and raised. In 2012, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.