Peter Charles Heap

Peter Charles Heap was born in England in 1947 and transported to Vancouver Canada by his parents at a very early age. His college education, at the University of British Columbia and Yale University, culminated in a PhD in history at the latter. Over-educated and under-qualified, he joined Canada's Department of External Affairs in 1974 as a foreign service officer. There he gained much useful experience and a lovely and charming wife, Lynda Cronin. In the course of their eventful careers, Peter and Lynda moved back and forth between Ottawa and Victoria several times. Peter worked in senior positions in the provincial and federal governments and in two public policy research organizations -- the Institute for Research in Public Policy and the Centre for Global Studies.

Inveterate travellers, Peter and Lynda have discovered that the list of possible destinations seems to grow rather than shrink over time. A small West Indian island (Bequia) and a ranch in the BC Interior, however, call them back every year, wherever else they go. Home base remains Victoria, Canada, where Peter and Lynda have lived in the same little green house with a succession of cats since 1982.

Peter came to writing fiction rather late, but Full Rip Nine has turned out to be an effective way to satisfy the story-telling urge. There may even be a sequel in the works.

On the non-fiction side, Peter authored Globalization and Summit Reform: An Experiment in International Governance (Springer, IDRC, 2008) while at the Centre for Global Studies.