Chris Benjamin is a fiction and features writer. His latest book is Chasing Paradise, from Pottersfield Press, a travel memoir about hitchhiking in 2001, before and after 9/11. His previous nonfiction book, Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, won the Dave Greber Social Justice Book Award. His short story collection, Boy With A Problem, was a finalist for the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction. He is also the author of Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada (winner of the 2012 APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award & finalist for the 2012 Evelyn Richardson nonfiction prize) and the critically-acclaimed novel, Drive-by Saviours (longlisted for 2011 ReLit Award & Canada Reads 2011; winner of the Percy Prize).