D. Grant Black is a veteran writer, editor and award-winning travel journalist who has worked in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada.
 
He’s the award-winning, best-selling author of Saskatchewan Book of Musts: 101 Places Every Saskatchewanian MUST See (MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. October 2009), now in its third printing. On November 2, 2010, Black was a national finalist in the Tourism Toronto Travel Media Award category at the 2010 National Awards for Tourism Excellence. In June 2012, Black was a 2012 Western Magazine Awards finalist — Gold Award Best Article CAA Westworld — for his travel feature on vintage Boler travel-trailer gatherings, “Prairie Eggs Over Easy.”
 
D. Grant Black, who was born in Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan, grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Canada. His paternal great-parents, Donald and Sarah (Brown) Black arrived in what is now Saskatchewan from Tiree, Argyll, Scotland in 1884.
 
Black completed his post-secondary communication studies in Vancouver, B.C. He has also lived in Montréal, Toronto, Fernie, British Columbia and Calgary where he worked as the editor-in-chief of several magazines. He now lives near Saskatoon with journalist Patricia Dawn Robertson and their border collie, Laddie.
 
Black freelances for travel sections of The Globe and Mail, The Boston Globe, The National Post, The Toronto Star, Canadian Geographic Travel, Ski Canada, Air Canada’s enRoute, Canada’s History, Explore, CAA Westworld and he’s a travel correspondent for AOL Travel Canada and Matador Network, both on-line travel websites.
 
Black writes features on travel, business, lifestyle, green technology, commentaries and non-fiction book reviews, mostly on pop culture, history, satire and travel. He’s also at work on several projects: an illustrated, satiric book collaboration, a humorous memoir and a teleplay.
 
Check out the “travel clips” page for some of D. Grant Black’s published samples.
 
Before Black found his now well-worn writer’s groove through a mixture of education and life experience, he worked briefly as a gas station clerk, veteran’s home orderly, hotel bellman, record store clerk, construction worker, commercial silk screener, business club steward, restaurant waiter, bartender, caterer, telephone survey interviewer, courier dispatcher, treeplanter, house painter, skip tracer and magazine publisher. He also operated a home services business (lots and lots of window cleaning) in overcast Vancouver throughout his post-secondary schooling.
 
Grant is open to both assignment work and feedback. Please go to the “Contact” page.
 
 
 
All Photos by Patricia Dawn Robertson