Joan Skogan has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the CBC Literary Essay Competition and the Western Magazine Award.

She is the author of The Good Companion, Voyages at Sea with Strangers, The Princess and the Sea Bear and Other Tsimshian Stories, Grey Cat at Sea and Skeena: A River Remembered.

Her work has been broadcast on the CBC and has appeared in Saturday Night, The Georgia Straight, Border Crossings, Brick, Western Living, the forthcoming Banff fiction anthology, the 1993 Journey Prize Anthology, Winds Through Time, Canadian Children's Annual, Share a Tale, The Clayoquot Sound Anthology and other collections. She lives on Gabriola island, B.C.