Russell Wangersky is an award-winning non-fiction writer and editor. He has received several National Newspaper Awards, won Prism International's Creative Non-Fiction competition two years running, won Prairie Fire's Creative Non-Fiction competition once, and has been a finalist for many other editorial and writing awards. His short fiction has been published in Prairie Fire and Grain. The Hour of Bad Decisions is his first book publication.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Russell Wangersky has lived in Canada since age 3, most of that time in the Maritimes. He received a BA Honours in Philosophy from Acadia University, and currently works as the editor in chief of the  St. John's Telegram.