Happiest when reading or hiking, Ken Haigh has written one other travel memoir, Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan (UAlberta Press). He has worked as a teacher and librarian and lives in Clarksburg, Ontario.

Ken Haigh is a graduate of Queen's University and the University of Western Ontario, where he studied English literature, education, and library science In 1987-89, he taught for two years in Khaling Valley in Eastern Bhutan Ken has also taught in China and in the Canadian Arctic He lives in Clarksburg, Ontario