Joan Soggie’s lifelong curiosity about her homeland has led her to explore the native prairie, the centuries-long relationship between the land and First Nations, and her own family’s settler history. Her 2014 non-fiction book, Looking for Aikton, garnered praise form academics and general readers. The prairies and all its creatures are her inspiragtion. Her family is her joy. She and her husband Dennis, enjoy travelling and treasure days with their children , grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Joan Soggie lives and writes in rural Saskatchewan.