Harold Macy has lived in Merville, halfway up the east side of Vancouver Island BC for more than thirty years. During that time he has worked for the BC Forest Service Research Branch, been a silviculture contractor for a local forestry company, fought wildfires, had rain in his lunchpail heli-logging up in the mid-coast inlets, and for many years was the forester at the UBC Oyster River Research Farm, where he wrote and delivered on-line and weekend courses in small scale forestry and agro forestry .
He has been a two-bit local politician, remains an old hippy, an unrepentant socialist and an equally unapologetic Christian. He is a member of Black Creek Mennonite Brethren Church and a founding Director of the North Island Woodlot Association and the Comox Valley Farmers Market
He has learned about writing at North Island College, Victoria School of Writing, Sage Hills Writing Workshop (SK), listening to the coffee-time stories at the Merville Café and composing numerous rants to the editor. In 2010 he won the North Island College 3-Hour Short Fiction contest and was runner-up in 2008. He has also been published in an e-zine “Aspect Journal” and the “Island Word”.