Biography
Joan Haggerty was born in 1940 and raised in Vancouver, B.C. From 1962 to 1972 she lived and wrote in London, England; Formentera, Spain; and NYC, USA. Returning to the B.C. coast, she lived in Roberts Creek and Vancouver where she taught in the Dept. of Continuing Education and the Creative Writing Dept. at the University of B.C. From 1990 to 2005, she taught high school in Houston, B.C.
Her fourth book, a novel, The Dancehall Years, was published by Mother Tongue Publishing (Salt Spring Island, B.C., 2016) and was a BC Book Prizes, Ethel Wilson fiction Honour Book. Her previous books are Please, Miss, Can I Play God ? (Methuen, London, 1966. Bobbs-Merrill, NYC, 1967); Daughters of the Moon, (Bobb-Merrill, NYC, 1971) and The Invitation ( Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1994. Les Editions JCL, Chicoutimi, Quebec, 1999). The Invitation was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 1994.