Sid Marty is a Canadian author, songwriter and mountain bard. He is the award-winning author of "Men for the Mountains" and won the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival's Best Book on Mountain Environment and Culture for "Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook". In 1999, he won the Banff Mountain Book Festival’s Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature for "Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies". His poetry has appeared in various literary journals and in anthologies as well as his own books, "Headwater", "Nobody Danced with Miss Rodeo", and "Sky Humour". Sid Marty's work has been published in periodicals including "Equinox", "Canadian Geographic", "Canadian Business", and "National Geographic Traveler". As a singer/songwriter he has played in Canada, America and the U.K. for a range of audiences but he says “My most bizarre experience was opening for a certain world famous pop diva at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary. The outdoors guy just didn't fit with the smoke machines and feather boas." Sid Marty lives and writes in the foothills of southwestern Alberta.