Joseph Naytowhow
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Joseph Naytowhow

Joseph Naytowhow is a gifted Plains/Woodland Cree (nehiyaw) singer/songwriter, storyteller, and voice, stage and film actor from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation Band in Saskatchewan. As a child, Joseph was influenced by his grandfather’s traditional and ceremonial chants as well as the sounds of the fiddle and guitar. Today he is renowned for his unique style of Cree/English storytelling, combined with original contemporary music and traditional First Nations drum and rattle songs.

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Tim Lilburn
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Tim Lilburn

Tim Lilburn is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including To the River, Kill-site, and Orphic Politics. His work has received the Governor General’s Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. Lilburn is also the author of two essay collections, Living in the World as if It Were Home and Going Home, and edited two other collections on poetics. He teaches at the University of Victoria.

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Lorna Crozier
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Lorna Crozier

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island.

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Lynn Stegner
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Lynn Stegner

Lynn Stegner’s books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and Faulkner Award for Best Novel. Over the last decade, she has involved herself in conservation, speaking and writing frequently on the subject, and collaborating with conservation biologists. She teaches for Stanford University and is also a developmental editor. Lynn Stegner married the late novelist, historian, and essayist, Page Stegner, son of Wallace Stegner. She divides her time between San Francisco, California and northern Vermont.

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Darla Tenold
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Darla Tenold

The October resident is writer Darla Tenold from Saskatoon, SK. Rather than write stories that are human centred, which is the trend in modern literature, Darla’s goal is to write stories that are Life centred. During her residency, she will be working on a collection of literary short stories.

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Angela Waldie
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Angela Waldie

Angela Waldie is a poet and creative nonfiction writer. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Calgary, where her research focused on species extinction in Canadian and American literature.

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