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Trevor
Herriot

Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist, activist, and writer of five books. His book Grass, Sky, and Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize, a Governor General’s Literary Award, and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (nonfiction). His work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, and several anthologies. He has also written two radio documentaries for CBC’s Ideas and is a regular guest on CBC Radio Saskatchewan’s Blue Sky. Herriot lives in Regina.

Award History

2009 Finalist

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds

2004 Finalist

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for Jacob’s Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness

Works recognized by WT

Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds

Jacob’s Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness