Andrew Westoll is an award-winning author, narrative journalist and professor based in Toronto, where he lives with his wife and young son. A former primatologist-in-training, most of Westoll’s writing explores our fraught relationship with the more-than-human world. He is the author of The Riverbones, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, and The Jungle South of the Mountain. The Chimps won Canada’s most prestigious nonfiction book award, the RBC-Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction, and was shortlisted for several other major awards. It was selected as a Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail, Amazon.ca, Quill and Quire, and CTV's Canada AM, and was twice longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads. Westoll’s books have been published in Canada, the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Poland, and his feature writing has won a Gold National Magazine Award and has appeared in The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, Canadian Geographic, Explore, Utne Reader, and many other venues. He is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough. To watch his TEDx talk, media appearances, and more, visit andrewwestoll.com.