Cherie Dimaline is a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario.
Her 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves, was named one of the “Best YA Books of All Time” by TIME Magazine; won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature; and was the fan favourite for CBC’s 2018 Canada Reads. Her novel Empire of Wild became an instant Canadian bestseller, was named Indigo’s 2019 Best Book and is being adapted into an opera. Hunting By Stars was a 2022 American Indian Library Association Honor Book and her novel VENCO debuted at #1 on Canadian bestseller lists. Other recent titles include Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Into the Bright Open, and An Anthology of Monsters, which won the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Award for Trade Non-fiction. Dimaline lives in her Georgian Bay Métis Community and writes/produces for screen and stage.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta District 6, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
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