Marilyn Dumont
Marilyn Dumont has published two collections of poetry
A Really Good Brown Girl and green girl dreams Mountains.
These works have won the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Writer's Guild of Alberta Stephan F. Stephansson Award.
She has been Writer-in-Residence at many universities, teaches Creative Writing through Athabasca University, and is a mentor for the Wired Writing Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Dumont is currently working on a project that explores Métis history, politics and identity through her ancestral figure, Gabriel Dumont.
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“Throughout this text, Marilyn Dumont, articulates touches and settles the nerve of Cree. The reader wanders through the patched quilt life of families, of communities, of relatives and of the Cree nation itself. Always, we are immersed in ancient Cree ways as expressed in Cree borrowed English. Brilliantly and lyrically presented we are forever reminded that Cree culture, Cree people have not been eradicated, quite the contrary, through Dumont’s that tongued belongingwe celebrate the renaissance, the transformation and the continuum of the poetics, being and heroism of the Cree.” - Lee Maracle, Author, Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebeland Will's Garden