About the Author
Jacqueline Moore is a Saskatchewan freelance writer. Over the years, she has
been a dessert baker, a tree planter, a features reporter, a racehorse
groom/stablehand, a desktop publisher, an environmental educator, and a couple
dozen other things. She studied French at l’Université de Montreal, and the
Humanities at UBC in Vancouver before eventually attaining a diploma in
journalism. Having always been fascinated with others’ life experiences, it was
her years spent as a journalist that gave Jacqueline the parlance to interview
people and give voice to their narratives.
Jacqueline is an alumna of the Saskatchewan School of the Arts (Fort San,
1982), and the Sage Hill Writing Experience. Throughout the years, she’s had the
good fortune to study creative writing with Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Carpenter,
J. Jill Robinson, Steven Ross Smith, Sharon Butala, Sue Goyette and Phil Hall.
Her forays into poetry and fiction solidified her personal mantra that it’s
easier to simply tell the truth! She is committed to non-fiction until the
stories run out.
For the research and writing of The Saskatchewan
Secret: Folk Healers, Diviners and Mystics of the Prairies, Jacqueline
was honoured to receive two literary grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
And she was very pleased to win a first-place and a second-place literary award
from the Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild for two of the stories in the book: “Root
Woman” and “Reading Between the Lines.” In 2007, “Root Woman” was published in
spring magazine, Volume V.
The Saskatchewan Secret: Folk Healers, Diviners and
Mystics of the Prairies is Jacqueline’s first book. She’s begun work on
her next collection of true stories.
been a dessert baker, a tree planter, a features reporter, a racehorse
groom/stablehand, a desktop publisher, an environmental educator, and a couple
dozen other things. She studied French at l’Université de Montreal, and the
Humanities at UBC in Vancouver before eventually attaining a diploma in
journalism. Having always been fascinated with others’ life experiences, it was
her years spent as a journalist that gave Jacqueline the parlance to interview
people and give voice to their narratives.
Jacqueline is an alumna of the Saskatchewan School of the Arts (Fort San,
1982), and the Sage Hill Writing Experience. Throughout the years, she’s had the
good fortune to study creative writing with Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Carpenter,
J. Jill Robinson, Steven Ross Smith, Sharon Butala, Sue Goyette and Phil Hall.
Her forays into poetry and fiction solidified her personal mantra that it’s
easier to simply tell the truth! She is committed to non-fiction until the
stories run out.
For the research and writing of The Saskatchewan
Secret: Folk Healers, Diviners and Mystics of the Prairies, Jacqueline
was honoured to receive two literary grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
And she was very pleased to win a first-place and a second-place literary award
from the Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild for two of the stories in the book: “Root
Woman” and “Reading Between the Lines.” In 2007, “Root Woman” was published in
spring magazine, Volume V.
The Saskatchewan Secret: Folk Healers, Diviners and
Mystics of the Prairies is Jacqueline’s first book. She’s begun work on
her next collection of true stories.
