Mark Abley is a nonfiction writer, journalist, editor and poet. His most recent books are Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail and an updated edition of the ground-breaking Conversations with a Dead Man: Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott. One of his earlier books, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montré al; it has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese and Latvian. A long-time Montrealer, Abley now lives in Ontario