Waubgeshig Rice grew up in Wasauksing First Nation on the shores of Georgian Bay, in the southeast of Robinson-Huron Treaty territory. He is the author of the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge and the novels Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow, and Moon of the Turning Leaves. A former broadcast journalist, he graduated from the journalism program at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2002, and spent most of his broadcasting career with the CBC. He is also a language learner and a martial artist, holding a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He lives in N’Swakamok, also known as Sudbury, Ontario, with his wife and three sons.