Avi grew up in Toronto, Canada. After earning a university degree in Biology, he worked in a variety of occupations, including pastry baker, forklift operator and landscaper. He'd already enjoyed (or endured) stints as house painter, taxi driver, hot dog vendor, laboratory technician, grain handler, parking lot attendant and, somewhat ingloriously, telephone solicitor. Each was interesting work, in its own way, but nonetheless he elected to seek a new career path. When Avi next graduated, he had a law degree. As a new lawyer, he first worked with a prominent Toronto law firm where, from his 35th floor office window, he could see the silos of Victory Soya Mills and reflect fondly on those days when he'd slugged ninety-pound bags of soybean meal all day. After a couple of years practising labour and employment law, Avi left the firm and founded his own law practice in downtown Toronto, eventually focusing upon immigration and criminal law. Fifteen years went by in a blur. Then Avi decided it was time for a change. Avi now lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Although he still does legal consulting work, for the past several years he has focused on writing. He has written screenplays and short stories, and his novel The Evolutionist was published in 2014. He is currently at work on his next novel.
