PAT LAMONDIN SKENE retired from the world of banking to find her voice. She is a Métis author of eight books for children, including the picture book Lights along the River and the Orca Echoes titles What a Hippopota-Mess!, Rhyme Stones and Monster Lunch. Pat’s memoir, Swiftly Flowing Waters, shares more stories of her childhood growing up in a Métis community on the Magnetawan River. Pat keeps her imagination fed and watered in Oakville, Ontario.