Andrew Nikiforuk is a well-known Canadian journalist whose work has appeared in Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Equinox, and Canadian Family and in the Globe and Mail and the National Post. His books include Pandemonium; Saboteurs, which won a Governor General’s Award; Fourth Horseman and Tar Sands. His new book, Empire of the Beetle, investigates the human-engineered devastation of North America’s beetle-ravaged forest. He lives in Calgary.