| Maggie Siggins | |
| Birth Name: | Marjorie May Siggins |
| Birth Date: | 1942 5, df=y[1] |
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation: | journalist, author |
| Education: | BAA (Journalism), 1965 |
| Alma Mater: | Ryerson |
| Awards: | 1992 Governor General's Award |
Marjorie May "Maggie" Siggins (born 28 May 1942) is a Canadian journalist and writer. She was a recipient of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit for her non-fiction work Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm. She was also the recipient of the 1986 Arthur Ellis Award for "Best true crime book" for her work A Canadian Tragedy, about the involvement of former Saskatchewan politician Colin Thatcher in the murder of his wife JoAnn Wilson. The book was later adapted into the television miniseries .[2]
Siggins is also noted as the author of a biography of Louis Riel entitled Riel: A Life of Revolution. In Her Own time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women and Bitter Embrace:White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree are her last two books. Both Revenge of the Land and A Canadian Tragedy were adapted as television mini-series by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
She is also the former chair of the Writers' Union of Canada.