Lee Maracle
Ms. Maracle is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works including:
Ravensong, Bobbi Lee, Daughters Are Forever, Celia’s Song, long listed for Canada Reads and short listed for the Re-lit award, I Am Woman long listed for Canada Reads, Talking to the Diaspora, Memory Serves and other Oratories and the award winning My Home as I Remember. Conversations with Canadians was short-listed for the Toronto Book Award, is a bestselling non-fiction work. Maracle is an instructor at the University of Toronto in Indigenous Studies and First Nation’s house. Maracle served as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Toronto, Waterloo, and Western Washington. Maracle received the J.T. Stewart award, the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Blue Metropolis First Nation’s Literary award, the International Festival of Author’s award and the Anne Green award. Maracle received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from St. Thomas University, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal and the Officer of the Order of Canada.