J. B. MacKinnon

J.B. MacKINNON is an adjunct professor at UBC Graduate School of Journalism and a regular contributor to such influential publications as The New Yorker and The Atlantic. He is the author of The 100-Mile Diet, cowritten with Alisa Smith, which catalysed the local foods movement, and inspired a Food Network TV series. He is also the author of The Once and Future World, a national bestseller that was nominated for every major non-fiction prize in Canada, and won the US Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, and Dead Man in Paradise, which won the Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Vancouver with his partner, Alisa Smith.