Authors
Welcome to the Kegedonce Press Authors Directory. Here you will find Author Bio's and Reviews for all of our wonderful authors.
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Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
"I believe she is one of the best up-and-coming younger writers in North America and I am always watching to see what she is doing.”
Joy Harjo, 1999
Kateri is an Anishnaabe writer of mixed ancestry from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation.
She lives and works at Neyaashiinigmiing, Cape Croker Reserve ...more...
Joanne Arnott
Joanne Arnott is an award winning Metis writer from Manitoba. Born in 1960, in Winnipeg, she studied at the University of Windsor, in Ontario. She has lived on the west coast since 1982.
Her first book of poetry, Wiles of Girlhood won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1992. Other books include: My Grass Cradle, Breasting the ...more...
Lesley Belleau
Lesley Belleau was born and raised in Garden River
First Nations, located outside of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. She is
Ojibway and holds an M.A in English Literature and Creative Writing.
She writes fiction, poetry, plays and spoken word pieces as well that
she has performed on and off-stage. Her poetry
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Joseph A Dandurand
Josie is of
Wardaman descent: her grandmother's country is just south of Katherine
in Australia's Northern Territory.
Josie has worked in the publishing
industry for eight years, and has spoken throughout Australia on
Indigenous literature and publishing. She commissioned the anthology
Message Stick: Contemporary Aboriginal Writing for IAD Press and has
worked on a wide range of fiction, ...more...
David is "a
French/Ojibwa half-breed born in Northern Ontario in 1969.
I am married
with two children and a dog." He has a B.A. from Lakehead University
and published his first book of poetry Night in the Exude in 1997.
He
graduated from the En'owkin International School of Writing in 1999.
David's poetry has been published in ...more...
Al Hunter is Anishinaabe from Manitou Rapids, Rainy River First Nations.
Al has published his poetry in many journals and anthologies, including, Rampike; Canadian Literature; Boyhood, Growing Up Male: A Multicultural Anthology; Poets Who Haven't Moved to Minneapolis; North Coast Review; New Breed; and Gatherings.
Back in 1968 a grade 5 student, after studying Indians indepth for five weeks, asked Basil Johnston, a visitor to the school, "Is that all there is to Indians, Sir?"
Daniel Heath Justice is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and was raised in the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in that part of the Mouache Ute territory now known as Victor, Colorado.
He teaches Indigenous North American literatures and Aboriginal studies at the University of Toronto. Kynship is ...more...
John McDonald is a writer, artist, musician and playwright of Plains Cree blood from north-western Saskatchewan. He is a sixth-generation direct descendant of Chief Mistawasis of the Plains Cree, signer of Treaty 6 at fort Carlton, and part of the Dreaver dynasty of chiefs and politicians.
Rolland
Nadjiwon is potowatomi, born on the Cape Croker Indian reservation.
For
some years his family has been relocated to Sault Ste. Marie with his
mother’s people, the ojibway.
‘Seven deer dancing’ is Rolland’s first
collection of poems. However, his poems, essays and short stories have
been published in magazines in Canada and the United States.
GREGORY SCOFIELD
is one of Canada's leading Aboriginal writers whose five collections of poetry have earned him both a national and international audience. He is known for his unique and dynamic reading style that blends oral storytelling, song, spoken word and the Cree language. His maternal ...more...
A Dogrib (Tlicho) Dene from Fort Smith, NWT, Richard Van Camp is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author. He is the author of the novel, The Lesser Blessed, a collection of short stories, Angel Wing Splash Pattern, and two children's books with Cree artist, George Littlechild. His new ...more...
Joseph is a Kwantlen poet, playwright and father from the Fort Langley band in British Columbia. He received a Diploma in Performing Arts from Algonquin College and studied Theatre and Direction at the University of Ottawa. His produced plays include Shake (published by skyuks press 2003.), Crackers ...more...
Josie Douglas
Marilyn Dumont
Marilyn Dumont has published two collections of poetry A Really Good Brown Girland 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 ...more...
David A Groulx
Al Hunter
Basil Johnson
Since that time Basil Johnston has written 15 books in English and 5 in Ojibway to show that there ...more...
Daniel Heath Justice
John McDonald
His maternal grandfather ...more...
Rolland Nadjiwon
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Greg Scofield
Richard Van Camp
