Marilyn Dumont

Marilyn Dumont is a writer of Cree and Métis ancestry. Her first collection of poetry, A Really Good Brown Girl, won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Other collections include green girl dreams Mountains; that tongued belonging, which won the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year; and The Pemmican Eaters, which won the 2016 Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Her poetry explores how Canada’s racist and colonial history continue to be lived realities for First Nations and Métis communities. Dumont has been writer-in-residence at the Edmonton Public Library, the University of Alberta, and Toronto’s Massey College. She taught at the Banff Centre for the Arts and advised and mentored in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers’ Program. She serves on the board of the Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada and is an associate professor in the arts and Native studies program at the University of Alberta. Dumont lives in Edmonton.