TOM EARLE was born in Orillia, Ontario, and was an avid young hockey player who played with the Orillia Travelways, the Barrie Colts and Dartmouth College of the NCAA before travelling to England to play for the Whitley Bay Warriors of the British Ice Hockey League. He has been a teacher for the past eighteen years and is the author of the young adult novel The Hat Trick. Earle lives in Oro-Medonte, Ontario,with his wife and three children.
