Writers
Rosanna Deerchild (She/Her) is Cree, from the community of O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation. She has been a storyteller for more than 20 years. She is the host of CBC Radio One’s Unreserved. Her debut poetry collection this is a small northern town shared her reflections of growing up in a racially divided place. It won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky, is a collaboration with her mother who was forced to attend Indian Residential School. Her third and most recent collection she falls again will be published with Coach House Books in October 2024. Her first play with the Royal MTC’s Pimootayowin Creators Circle, The Secret to Good Tea was produced for the stage for their 2022/2023 season and will also be produced by The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario and at the NAC Indigenous Theatre in Ottawa in the 2025/2026 season.