Ian Thomas Shaw (nom de plume Con Cú) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. For the last 33 years, he has worked as a diplomat and as an international development worker, living in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He currently lives in Aylmer, Quebec. He is the founder of Deux Voiliers Publishing, the Prose in the Park Literary Festival, and the Ottawa Review of Books, as well as the editor of two anthologies—The Marginal Ride (2019) and Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology (2025)—for which he contributed two short stories each.

Ian Thomas Shaw
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