Biography

Award-winning broadcaster and bestselling author Gillian Deacon is one of Canada’s best-known environmental writers.  She is the author of the national bestsellers There’s Lead in Your Lipstick: Toxins in Everyday Bodycare and How to Avoid Them (Penguin, 2011), and Green For Life (Penguin, 2008), a guide to making sustainable living ‘the new normal’, and has been a columnist with Chatelaine magazine. Gill is well-known for her work on television, most recently as host of CBC TV’s flagship daytime talk show, The Gill Deacon Show, and before that as co-host of @discovery.ca for five years on Discovery Channel Canada and Discoveries This Week for Discovery Science Channel in the U.S.  She was also a weekly arts correspondent for CBC News: Morning. 

Gillian is a director on the board of EcoJustice, Canada’s leading charity using the law to restore and protect the environment, and also sits on the board of the Writer’s Trust, a national organization supporting and promoting Canadian writers.

Gill lives in Toronto with her husband Grant Gordon and their three sons.