Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Thomas is an award-winning Mi'kmaw writer of poetry and children’s books. She is a registered band member of Lennox Island First Nation in Epekwitk. Her first book, I’m Finding My Talk, was shortlisted for the First Nations Community Reads Award. Her debut book of poetry, I place you into the fire, was listed as one of CBC’s top 20 books of 2020. Her book Swift Fox All Along was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s Award for young people’s literature. Thomas was a 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Star. She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Writers & Books
Program History
2021 - Rising Star
Rising Stars
Selected by
Sue Goyette
Citation
Rebecca Thomas writes with an eloquence that burns and illuminates at once. Righteously. Her work is as fierce in its reach as it is tender. A reader and listener will feel their own heart beating in the way hearts do when they’re being invited to open. Thomas extends this invitation from all directions; here humour is audacious and quick like a river and vulnerability is a source of strength, of dignity. This is writing the world needs for how sure-footed and open it is, how willing it is to meet this time on the planet with the clarity and acuity.