Lisa Bird-Wilson


Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Métis and nêhiyaw writer from Saskatchewan.

Biography

A survivor of the Sixties Scoop, as a child Bird-Wilson was taken from her Indigenous parents and adopted, disconnecting her from First Nations and Métis heritage. This experience informs much of her writing.
Bird-Wilson's debut collection of short stories, Just Pretending, was chosen as the Saskatchewan Library Association's 2019 One Book One Province. The book won four Saskatchewan Book Awards, and was a finalist for the 2014 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Reviewing the stories for The /tƐmz/ Review, Amy Mitchell says "the stories and characters are so alive, and the writing is so beautiful in its stripped-down simplicity."
She has also published poetry and non-fiction books.
, Bird-Wilson is director of the Gabriel Dumont Institute, the education arm of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan. She is also the founding board member of the Ânskohk Aboriginal Writers' Circle and founding president of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network.

Works

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