Louise Bernice Halfe
CBC Books | | Posted: April 20, 2021 1:32 PM | Last Updated: May 6, 2021
Louise Bernice Halfe, whose Cree name is Sky Dancer, is Canada's ninth Parliamentarian Poet Laureate and served as the first Indigenous Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan. She was born in Two Hills, Alta. and was raised on the Saddle Lake First Nation and attended Blue Quills Residential School. She earned her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Regina and certificates in Addiction Counselling from the Nechi Institute. She earned her Doctorate of Letters from Wilfred Laurier University, the University of Saskatchewan and Mount Royal University. Halfe's poetry collections include Bear Bones & Feathers, Blue Marrow, The Crooked Good and Burning in this Midnight Dream. Her latest poetry collection is awâsis – kinky and disheveled.
Halfe, along with Canadian poets Canisia Lubrin and Steven Heighton, is on the jury for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize.
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