Maria Campbell

Maria Campbell is a Métis writer, playwright, filmmaker, scholar, teacher, community organizer, activist, and elder. Campbell’s memoir, Halfbreed, is a foundational work of Indigenous literature in Canada. Her latest book is Little Badger and the Fire Spirit, and she is working on a series of stand-alone stories, a collection of family stories, and Stories of the Road Allowance People, all collected and translated from the Cree language by her. Campbell has worked with Indigenous youth in community theatre, mentored Indigenous artists, co-established shelters for Indigenous women and children, and run a cultural centre at Gabriel’s Crossing. She is the winner of the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence, a fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, was appointed to the Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Brandon University, and has served as Cultural Advisor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law and the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching since 2017. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and holds eight honorary doctorates. She lives in Saskatoon.