Joseph Simons was an avid reader as a child and remains one to this day. He is intimately acquainted with farm life, right down to the calluses on his hands. He loves Saskatchewan, where he lived in the early 1980s, except for the winters, which, he says, “Demand another kind of thinking about one’s place in the world.” Still, even in those winters, Joseph rode his bike to work every day. He based Under a Living Sky on a story that his late father-in-law told him, a story that he could not shake. Under a Living Sky is his first book. Visit him at www.josephsimons.ca.