Herb Curtis was raised near Blackville, on the Miramichi, and now lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His collection of short fiction, <i>Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles</i> (1999), was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award. <i>The Last Tasmanian</i> (1991, 2001), one of four novels, garnered the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was a regional finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.