Dr Matthew R Anderson holds a Gatto Chair of Christian Studies at St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia/Mi’kma’ki, Canada, and is an affiliate professor at Concordia, Montreal. In addition to many academic articles and book chapters, Matthew has published six books. Two focus on walking: Someone Else’s Saint: How a Scottish Pilgrimage Led to Nova Scotia (2025), second-place winner of the Pottersfield book prize, and The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails (University of Regina Press, 2024; winner of the 2025 Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishers). Matthew produces the pilgrimage podcast “Pilgrimage Stories from Up and Down the Staircase,” and blogs at: https://SomethingGrand.ca . Matthew is re-learning to walk after a crippling stroke in September 2024.