Jim Christy is a writer, artist, and tireless traveller. The author of twenty books, including poetry, short stories, novels, travel, and biography, Christy has been praised by writers as diverse as Charles Bukowski and Sparkle Hayter. His travels have taken him from the Yukon to the Amazon, Greenland to Cambodia. He has covered wars and exhibited his art internationally. Raised in the slums of Philadelphia, he moved to Toronto when he was 23 years old and became a Canadian citizen at the first opportunity. He currently makes his home on BC's Sunshine Coast.
