Sheila Harrington is an award-winning author and environmental advocate, with a thirty-year career in the conservation field. She was the founding executive director of the Land Trust Alliance of BC (LTAB) (1997–2011) and is the current director of the Lasqueti Island Nature Conservancy. She is the co-author of the bestselling Islands in the Salish Sea Community Atlas, a finalist for two BC Book Awards and 3rd place winner of the BC Historical Federation prize.