Lloyd Ratzlaff brings the prairie landscape to life through a capacious imagination charged with wonder and the gentle irony of an awareness tempered by time and love. A remarkable new talent in the burgeoning field of literary non-fiction, Ratzlaff connects with the challenges posed by scepticism and belief, countering both the cynicism and doctrinairism of contemporary life with a renewed praise of the profound depths of the spirit and the natural world.
Lloyd Ratzlaff was born and raised in Saskatchewan, and currently makes his living as a writer in Saskatoon. He obtained a Bachelor of Theology/Bachelor of Religious Education degree from Providence College, a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg, and a M.Ed. in Counselling and Educational Psychology from the University of Saskatchewan. He has worked as a freelance writer and columnist, a school counsellor, a university lecturer, and a Minister at several churches in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Both his creative non-fiction and professional pieces have been widely published throughout Canada.