Joan Skogan, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

Joan Skogan was born on the west coast and received an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She has written features for CBC Radio, Saturday Night, Border Crossings, and Georgia Straight.

Besides her work as a journalist, Skogan has published short stories and prose poems in Grain, Prairie Fire, West Coast Review, and other magazines. Her stories are included in the Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland & Stewart, 1994) and other collections. Moving Water (Beach Holme), her first novel, was published in 1998. Her previous book, Voyages: At Sea with Strangers (HarperCollins, 1992), is a memoir of working offshore as a Canadian fisheries observer. Skeena: A River Remembered (B.C. Packers and B.C. Heritage, 1983) is a history of the Skeena River fishery. Her books for children are The Princess & the SeaBear and other Tsimshian Stories (Polestar, 1991), Grey Cat at Sea (Polestar, 1991), and The Good Companion (Orca, 1998).

In 2003 Skogan won Grain magazine’s Long Grain of Truth Prize for “Chimney Coulee Psalm.”

Contributor to:
Mary of Canada (author)
Meltwater (contributor)
Taking Risks (contributor)