Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, adventure traveller, and software engineer. His first novel, Dark Places (aka Trail Of The Dead in the UK) won an Arthur Ellis Award; his subsequent books have earned praise from The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Sydney Morning Herald and The Economist. His graphic novel The Executor (art by Andrea Mutti) will be published in June 2010 by Vertigo Comics.

Jon has written about Haiti, Hong Kong, Iraq, the Congo, and digital culture for Wired, The Walrus and The Globe & Mail. He blogs for The Walrus, tor.com, and The Guardian, and writes about technology in the developing world for Maisonneuve. He also Twitters.

Jon's "children's book for grown-ups" Beasts of New York, an adventure novel about a squirrel in New York City, is available online - for free, in its entirety - at www.beastsofnewyork.com.