J.B.
MacKinnon
J.B. MacKinnon is an award-winning nonfiction author and journalist. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. He was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and Pearson Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for The Once and Future World and Dead Man in Paradise. His fifth book, The Day the World Stops Shopping, was nominated for a 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award. MacKinnon lives in Vancouver.
Award History
2013 Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfictionfor The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
Jury Citation
“In The Once and Future World, J. B. MacKinnon -- until now probably best known as co-author of The 100-Mile Diet -- ventures into the darkness of the extinction crisis and discovers unexpected resources of possibility, wonder, and hope. Even as he surveys the damage to what he calls our 10% world, he is struck by the enduring capacity of nature to sustain an abundance and variety of life, a potential that remains as powerful as ever. Smart and subtle, enlightened by original thought, and buoyed by lyricism and wit, this is a book that repays successive readings with undiminished pleasure.” – 2013 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury (Hal Niedzviecki, Candace Savage, and Andreas Schroeder)
