Scott Mackay is a fiction writer from Toronto, He is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and fifty-three short stories. He won the Arthur Ellis Award 2016 for his short story, The Avocodo Kid, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Last Inning won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction. Another story, Reasons Unknown, won the Okanagan Award for Best Literary Short Fiction in early 1999.
His first Barry Gilbert mystery, Cold Comfort, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery novel, and his science fiction novel, The Meek, was a finalist for the prestigious U.S. John Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel of 2001. His novels have been published in six languages. Phytosphere was voted one of the ten best novels by the American Library Association in 2007. Represented by: Joshua Bilmes, JABberwocky, A Literary Agency, New York.