Staff

Welcome to the Kegedonce Press Staff Directory.


Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

email: kateri@kegedonce.com

Kateri is an Anishnaabe writer and publisher of mixed ancestry from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She lives and works at Neyaashiinigmiing, Cape Croker Reserve on the Saugeen Peninsula in southwestern Ontario. In 1993 Kateri founded Kegedonce Press and since then has served as managing editor.

Kateri’s writing has been published in various anthologies, journals, and magazines in Canada, the U.S., Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, and Germany and in the collection my heart is a stray bullet. Currently, she is completing work on a CD of spoken word poetry and music; a collection of poetry; a collection of short stories; an anthology of erotica by Indigenous writers; and various multidisciplinary and publishing projects. Kateri guest edited an issue of Rampike Literary and Arts magazine (an issue featuring the work of Indigenous writers); and co-edited the international anthology of fiction by Indigenous writers co-published by Kegedonce Press and Aboriginal Australian publisher, Jukurrpa Books. skins: contemporary Indigenous writing was released in late 2000.

A strong advocate of Indigenous publishing and literature, Kateri is a member of the National Caucus of the WordCraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers and actively works with other Indigenous publishers internationally to nurture, expand, and promote Indigenous publishing and writing.

• Links: (for more information on Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm check out the following links)

http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/damm
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A164
http://www.owensound.library.on.ca/page.php?PageID=99


“Her writing strikes me as a blend of things in a new way. It deals with the elemental, dreams and memories, but her portrayal of these things haunt you, they speak to you. She has attached herself to the vision sense ofpoetry. It makes her poetry powerfully mysterious,” says Johnson.(Gordon Johnson is a Professor in the English Department at Trent University in Ontario.)


“Akiwenzie-Damm’s poems are filled with anguish, fear and confusion…“ Brenda Payne in “Voices of Hope,” Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Reviews http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=8859


Renee Abram

email: renee@kegedonce.com

Renee Abram (Oneida, Wolf Clan), has worked with Kegedonce Press since 1999 in the capacity of Publishing Manager and is honoured to have met so many talented writers along the way. Previous career adventures include serving as Executive Director of a provincial Aboriginal literacy coalition for nine years; founding member of CAAS (Coalition for the Advancement of Aboriginal Studies) and extensive background in media, communications, research and the arts.

Proud mother of one son, Eric, and two shared children, Nicki & Joseph, Renee continually tries to live each day of life "in honour of my Grandfather Angus Abram and All My Relations…"