Mason Harold (Hal) Hilden is a Bluenoser, who currently resides in Saint John, New Brunswick, with his wife Stacy, daughter Hayley, Sy the dog, and Foo the cat.

Over the last 20 years, Hal has written comic-books, including one professional work, Political Power: Stephen Colbert, for Tidalwave Productions. He has also dabbled in mini-biographies, interviews, baseball articles, and animation scripting.

Hal recently began writing fiction, and believes that Black Hare Press may have created a monster by accepting his submissions.

He goes by Hal while writing comics, and Mason Harold when writing fiction.