Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline is a Metis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Cherie spent many years working in and for Indigenous communities and now lives in her home territory where she is a registered and active member of the Georgian Bay Metis Community.

Her international bestseller The Marrow Thieves won the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers, and was named by TIME Magazine as one of the Best YA Books of All Time. Cherie's next novel, Empire of Wild, became an instant Canadian bestseller and was named Indigo's #1 Best Book of 2019. Hunting by Stars, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Marrow Thieves, will be released in July 2022.