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Lisa Bird-Wilson
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Lisa Bird-Wilson

Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Saskatchewan Métis and nêhiyaw writer whose work appears in literary magazines and anthologies across Canada. Her novel Probably Ruby (Doubleday 2021) was shortlisted for the Governor Generals Literary award and the Amazon First Novel award and won Saskatchewan book of the year. Her short story collection, Just Pretending (Coteau Books 2013), won four Saskatchewan Book Awards, including 2014 Book of the Year; and was the 2019 One Book, One Province selection. Bird-Wilson’s debut poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions 2016), is inspired by family and archival sources and reflects on the legacy of the residential school system and the fragmentation of families and histories. She lives in Saskatoon


Publications

Probably Ruby

Doubleday Canada and Hogarth Penguin Random House USA, 2021, Publication

The Red Files

Nightwood Editions, 2016,

Just Pretending

Coteau Books, 2013,

An Institute of Our Own: A History of the Gabriel Dumont Institute

Gabriel Dumont Publishing, 2012,

Periodicals

Geist
Category: Literary Journal
Grain
Category: Literary Journal
kimiwan
Category: Literary Journal
Prairie Fire
Category: Literary Journal
The Dalhousie Review
Category: Literary Journal

Writing Groups

  • Visible Ink

Genres

Fiction
  • Literary
Non-Fiction
  • General Non-Fiction
Poetry
  • Literary

Services

Genre Writing
  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Literary/Creative Fiction
  • Memoir
Lecturing/Public Speaking
  • Conferences
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