Brendan F. R. Edwards holds a Doctorate in History, specialising in Native-Newcomer relations, from the University of Saskatchewan, and Master’s degrees from Trent and McGill Universities. He is the author of Paper Talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960 (Scarecrow, 2005), articles on Aboriginal literacy and publishing in the History of the Book in Canada (UTP, 2005, 2007), and works in the journals Ontario History and BC Studies, among others. He is also the author of a guide to Slovak culture and customs, published in 2011.