Valley Byliners

Joan Soggie lives and writes in a small town set beside a lake that was once a river, surrounded by fields that were once a buffalo plain. Her lifelong curiosity has led her to explore the natural history of the land as well as the centuries-long relationship between the land and the First Nations and her own family's settler history. The prairie and its people are her inspiration. Her family is her joy.

Her first full-length published work was Looking for Aiktow, a regional history. That was followed by two historical novels. Prairie Grass follows the intertwined lives of a homesteader and a Metis. In her second novel, Rikka, family stories merge with history in a Norway to Canada saga.