Ian Ross was born in McCreary, Manitoba, and now calls Winnipeg home. His first professional production, fareWel (Scirocco Drama), won the 1997 Governor General's Award for Drama. He is also the author of The Gap (Scirocco Drama, 2000), Bereav'd of Light (produced at Stratford), Heart of a Distant Tribe, and two children's plays, Baloney! (1998) and The Illustrated History of the Anishnawbe People (2001).