MARILYN DUMONT is the author of four collections of poems: A Really Good Brown Girl (winner of the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award), green girl dreams Mountains (winner of the Writer’s Guild of Alberta’s 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award), that tongued belonging (winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year and Aboriginal Book of the Year Award) and The Pemmican Eaters (published in 2015 by ECW Press). The original Brick Books edition of A Really Good Brown Girl was reprinted thirteen times, and selections from the book are widely anthologized in secondary and post-secondary texts. Marilyn has been Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library and at numerous universities across Canada. In addition, she has been faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts’ Writing with Style and Wired Writing programs, as well as an advisor and mentor in their Indigenous Writers’ Program. She serves as a board member on the Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada, and freelances for a living.

LEE MARACLE is the author of numerous critically acclaimed works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and is also the co-editor of numerous anthologies, including the award-winning My Home as I Remember. Her work has been anthologized worldwide. A mother of four and grandmother of seven, Maracle was born in North Vancouver and is a member of the Stó:Lō Nation. She is currently an instructor in both the Aboriginal Studies Program and the Centre for Indigenous Theatre at the University of Toronto, where she is also the Traditional Teacher for the First Nations House. A Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Writer-in-Residence at numerous institutions across Canada, Maracle’s achievements have been recognized with the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and an honorary doctorate from St. Thomas University. She has also been awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work promoting writing among Aboriginal youth.