Joan Haggerty is a Canadian writer who divides her time between Telkwa and Gitanmaax / Hazelton, B.C.
Books
The Dancehall Years
"Fluidity, sensuality, a dreamlike quality and factual reality are not usually possible in one novel. Here, miraculously, they blend in an intricate and intimate geography of time and place, people and personal mythologies in a gorgeously rendered novel."
-The Vancouver Sun, 2016.
The Invitation
"It's exciting to find a book so moving, sensual and compelling that getting to the end of it is both urgent and dreaded."
-starred review in Quill&Quire, 1994.
Daughters of the Moon
"...a terrifying flight of the creative imagination - at once nightmarishly true and incredible."
-Phyllis Webb, CBC, 1972.
Please, Miss, Can I Play God?
" A book to trap any teacher who has read it into the same splendid, difficult important heresies."
-The Listener, 1966.
Wikipedia
ABC Bookworld
The Writers’ Union of Canada
Joan Haggerty’s most recent novel, The Dancehall Years, was published in 2016 by Mother Tongue Publishing. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
