Career
Born in Whitby, Ontario, Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts from York University and has held a wide range of writing and editorial jobs in the Canadian publishing and magazine industry. The publisher at Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group and vice-president of Random House of Canada, Collins has also written the award winning The Story of The Central Intelligence Agency Brainwashing Experiments in Canada. In the Sleep Room explored the history of Doctor Ewen Cameron and Montreal"s Allen Memorial Institute and was made into a movie directed by Anne Wheeler in 1998.