
Peter Kingsmill is a working writer and editor as well as a published author of contemporary fiction, including the Awan Lake mystery series. Peter is a recipient of the Governor General’s Conservation Award and the founder of the Redberry Lake (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserve in Saskatchewan.
Peter has been a frequent writer and editor since leaving high-school in Montreal and college in Vermont. He served as editor of the Eastern Townships Advertiser in the early 1960s, and later as editor of Tourism Magazine for the Canadian Tourism Commission between 2001 and 2008.
Peter recently (2012) retired from many years as a riverboat captain on the South Saskatchewan River, as well as owner (with his wife Valerie) of a small-waters marine services business. He is passionate about Canada’s rural spaces and has served two terms as Mayor in his home community of Hafford, where he currently lives with his wife Valerie, an artist and the author/illustrator of the Redberry Tales series of gentle children's books. Peter has been serving for more than ten years as publications editor for the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists, has been a member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and has also served two terms on the Board of Directors of Crime Writers of Canada before stepping down in 2022.