David A. Robertson is a two-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner and has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Writer’s Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award, the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. An author, editor, and speaker on Indigenous issues, mental health, and freedom of expression, his books include the novel The Theory of Crows; the memoirs All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety, and Black Water; the picture books When We Were Alone and On the Trapline; and the middle-grade series The Misewa Saga. Robertson is founder and Editorial Director of Swift Water Books, a Tundra Book Group imprint which focuses on celebrating Story and providing a platform for Indigenous writers and illustrators to share their truths. Robertson’s podcast Kiwew won the 2021 RTDNA Prairie Region Award for Best Podcast. A member of Norway House Cree Nation, he lives in Winnipeg.
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