Jeff Houlahan

I was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up on a half-dozen military bases in Canada and Germany before settling in Ottawa, Canada. I've been a waiter, a security guard (there is nothing less hip than being a nineteen-year-old security guard in full uniform at a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show), a bartender, made pool liners (a much tougher job than it sounds), delivered mail on Parliament Hill and played guitar in a punk band called The Rainkings.

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Today I am an ecologist, conservation biologist and writer. I live with my wife Kim in Cocagne, New Brunswick and work at the University of New Brunswick. All along I've been writing – short stories, songs, and, over the last dozen years, novels. Published by Level Best Books, his first novel is Long Train Home (March 2022) and his second, Boom Boom's Last Call, published on January 30, 2024. His third book, Singer's Circle will be published by Histria Books in August 2025.