Jocelyne Saucier (born May 27, 1948 in Clair, New Brunswick)[1] is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.

[2] Educated in political science at the Université Laval, Saucier worked as a journalist in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec before publishing her debut novel, La Vie comme une image, in 1996.

Her second novel, Les Héritiers de la mine, was a finalist for the Prix France-Québec in 2001, and her third novel, Jeanne sur les routes, was a finalist at the 2006 Governor General's Awards.

And the Birds Rained Down was defended by Martha Wainwright in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads.

[6] A film adaptation of Il pleuvait des oiseaux by director Louise Archambault was released to theatres in 2019.