Aaron Reynolds is the Webby Award-honoured author of Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification, which for seven whole days in 2019 was the bestselling book by any Canadian author not named Margaret Atwood. Previously he taught software for Apple Inc, wrote about baseball, and was a Santa Claus photographer in the worst mall in Mississauga, a city where they cut down all the trees and named the streets after them. He currently lives in Toronto.