Blair Palmer Yoxall
Blair Palmer Yoxall is a writer and poet whose writing has appeared in glass buffalo, The Fiddlehead, and Carving Space. His fiction won the 2015 Striking Prose Competition and the 2019 James Patrick Folinsbee Prize in English, and has been shortlisted for a 2017 Norma Epstein Foundation Award and a 2019 Indigenous Voices Award. Yoxall is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and lives in Calgary.
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“Blair Palmer Yoxall has brought the reader into the fraught times of the prairies in 1885. A voice and story that is undertold in Canadian literature, the fierce, resilient Métis women run the show in the face of colonial violence and community destruction. The novel moves with high energy and suspense in an ambitious way that echoes westerns of the past, but sheds new light on Métis life and the determination of the families, guided by the matriarchal leaders, to survive against all odds. The prairies come alive in this book through craft as exceptional as those leaders were in survival.”—2026 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Jury (David Chariandy, Conor Kerr, Kathleen Winter)Works Recognized by WT