Aaron Williams is a Canadian writer, most noted as the winner of the Edna Staebler Award in 2025 for his book The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era. [1]
Born and raised in British Columbia, Williams worked as a logger and forest firefighter until changes in the logging industry led him to return to school to study creative writing at the University of King's College. [2] He published his first book, Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir, in 2017, [3] and received a shortlisted nomination for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Non-Fiction at the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival. [4]
The Last Logging Show, his second book, was published in 2024. [5]
He is currently based in Nova Scotia. [2]