The Deaf House

Joanne Weber has obtained degrees in English, Library Science and Education, and undertook graduate work at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where she became fluent in American Sign Language. She now teaches in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Thom Collegiate. Joanne and her husband live in Regina, Saskatchewan with their two teenage daughters. The Pear Orchard (Hagios Press, 2007) was her first collection of poetry; The Deaf House is her first work of creative non-fiction.