Steve Burrows

Steve first began exploring nature around his childhood home in Birmingham, United Kingdom.  After emigrating to Canada, he earned degrees from York University (English literature) and Dalhousie University (education) before relocating to Hong Kong, where he earned a master’s degree from the University of Hong Kong in environmental management.

Steve’s writing assignments have taken him to all seven continents. His freelance articles on birding, travel, and environmental issues have appeared in publications around the world, including BBC Wildlife, from whom he received a Nature Writer of the Year award. As a contributing field editor with Asian Geographic, he visited destinations including Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and Papua New Guinea to cover stories on everything from gibbons to silk villages to seahorses. Merging his twin passions of birding and mysteries, Steve later turned his hand to fiction to create the Birder Murder Mysteries. The first title in the series, A Siege of Bitterns, won the Crime Writers of Canada award for Best First Novel and was selected as one of the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of the Year.

A designated ZEISS Field Naturalist, Steve travels with Adventure Canada as a naturalist and author on board. He currently lives in Oshawa, Ontario with his wife and muse, Resa.