David Waltner-Toews Author & Editor

David Waltner-Toews is an essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses (diseases other animals share with people), and ecosystem health. A professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, he is the founding president of Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières—Canada and of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health. Fear of Landing is his debut novel.