Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her first book, North End Love Songs, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. Her NFB short documentary, this river, won the Coup de Coeur at the Montreal First Peoples Festival and a Canadian Screen Award. Her first novel, The Break, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads. Vermette lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River. Website: katherenavermette.com. Twitter: @katherenav.

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Interviews:

• Podcast at The Koffler Centre of the Arts
• “‘Poetry is the gateway drug,’” she laughs. “’It is very precise, like a meditation. I always know where I start, but I never know where I’ll end up’” – In Herizons