Fred Stenson is the author of thirteen books, including four novels: Lonesome Hero, Last One Home, The Trade and Lightning. He is the recipient of the George Bugnet Novel Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize and a Giller Prize nomination for The Trade, two AMPIA awards for best documentary script and the Canadian Authors Association Silver Medal for Lonesome Hero. He is the winner of the $25,000 Grant MacEwan Author Prize. He lives in Calgary with his wife, the author and professor Pamela Banting. He has two children.
