Trevor Cole has been called "one of the best young novelists in Canada" by The Globe and Mail. He has worked everywhere from a factory floor to the boardroom of a national newspaper. Since 1982 he’s made his living from words, first as a radio copywriter, typing out 30-second spots for bun shops, furriers and Nissan dealerships, then as a magazine editor, then as an award-winning journalist. Aside from an eight-month detour as the Globe and Mail’s travel editor, he spent 14 years in the newspaper’s magazine division, culminating in a successful three-year stint as a senior writer at Report on Business Magazine. Upon leaving the Globe in 2001 he wrote a fortnightly satirical column for Canadian Business, which for two years existed as a notorious irritant to many of Canada’s most prominent business leaders. In his work as a magazine writer, Cole has won nine National Magazine Awards, including three gold medals. His stories have been nominated for awards twenty-five times.