Joan Skogan

Joan Skogan's work has appeared in Saturday Night, The Georgia Straight, Border Crossings, Brick, Western Living, several literary magazines and has been read on several CBC radio programs. Her fiction also appeared in the 1993 Journey Prize Anthoogy, Winds Through Time: An Anthology of Canadian Historical Young Adult Fiction, Canadian Children's Annual, as well as Share a Tale, The Clayoquot Sound Anthology and other collections. She has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the CBC Literary Essay Competition and the Western Magazine Awards. Skogan has a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and has worked in both fiction and art journalism programs at Banff. She has taught adults in various schools and has worked for many years in the commercial fishing industry. She has travelled the world extensively and now makes her home on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.