Lisa Bird-Wilson
Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Métis and nêhiyaw writer from Saskatchewan. Biography. A survivor of the Sixties Scoop, as a child Bird-Wilson was adopted, disconnecting her from her Cree and Métis heritage. This experience informs much of her writing. Bird-Wilson's debut collection of short stories, "Just Pretending" (2013), was chosen as the Saskatchewan Library Association's 2019 One Book One Province. The book won four Saskatchewan Book Awards (including 2014 book of the year), and was a finalist for the 2014 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Reviewing the stories for "The /tƐmz/ Review", Amy Mitchell  says "the stories and characters are so alive, and the writing is so beautiful in its stripped-down simplicity." She has also published poetry and non-fiction books. , Bird-Wilson is a director at the Gabriel Dumont Institute, the education arm of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan. She is also a founding board member and chair of the Ânskohk Aboriginal Writers' Circle and founding president of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network.