LESLIE ANTHONY is an award-winning Whistler-based writer, editor, biologist, and occasional filmmaker. Author of a number of celebrated works of non-fiction and a former editor at several renowned outdoor publications, he channels years spent in laboratories, deserts, jungles, swamps and mountains into his writings on adventure travel, the environment and science topics ranging from fossil-smuggling to climate change to monsters both real and imagined in publications like Canadian Geographic, British Columbia, Mountain Life and Pique.