Writer, wanderer, circus hand—
Byron Rempel never picked just one life.

Byron Rempel ran away from his Mennonite home in a Canadian prairie village to join a Parisian circus, which was followed by a turn as assistant elephant caretaker for a travelling Italian circus. A fascination for jungle life led to a gig as writer-in-residence for a Maya archaeological dig in Belize. Among other professions, Byron has tended bar in London, picked grapes in Beaujolais and picked stones in Manitoba.

Since the 1980s, Byron has written journalism for newspapers, magazines, and online publications. He has penned both a monthly humour column and a column interpreting Quebec for Western Canadians, and has edited novels as well as textbooks for Belizean schools. He is the author of two novels, a double biography of twin skiers, and an autobiographical exaggeration. He has completed a new novel and has found the perfect publisher for it: himself.