Born into an air force family, Ken grew up across Canada, finishing high school in Winnipeg, where his family remains to this day. He attended college in Lethbridge Alberta, then began his career in wildlife conservation. Over the years, Ken worked for Alberta F&W, B.C. Wildlife and Ducks Unlimited, where he spent 24 years.
He currently has his own consulting company, providing strategic planning, business planning and marketing services to a wide range of conservation NGOs, from Pheasants Forever, to the Alberta Trappers Association to SCI and more.
Ken Bailey began his outdoor writing career in 1988, starting a magazine called The Outdoor Edge, which he eventually sold. Ken continued freelance writing and has nearly 1200 articles published over the years. He has served as Outdoor Canada’s Hunting Editor since 1995. Bailey is also the wing shooting columnist for a South African magazine, The African Hunting Gazette and is currently the editor of Barry Mitchell’s Alberta Fishing Guide, an annual publication. He also manages to find time to contribute a regular column for The Fishin’ Hole, online.
Ken has travelled all over the world to fish and hunt. Those places include all of Canada, some in the US, Africa seven times, Argentina, Mexico and Belize, Iceland and Greenland, and more. His first book, No Place Like Home, was published in 2019. It relates tales of his fishing and hunting experiences across Canada.
Ken resides in Edmonton with his wife of 20 years, Jane and have two adult sons, who also live in Edmonton.