Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline is an internationally bestselling author. Her 2017 book The Marrow Thieves was named by TIME magazine one of the Best YA Books of All Time and won the Governor General’s Award and the Kirkus Prize. Her novel Empire of Wild became an instant Canadian bestseller, was named Indigo’s 2019 Best Book, and is being adapted into an opera. Hunting By Stars was a 2022 American Indian Library Association Honor Book, and her new novel VENCO debuted at #1 on Canadian bestseller lists. Other 2023 titles include Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Anthology of Monsters, and Into the Bright Open. Cherie lives in her Georgian Bay Métis Community and writes/produces for screen and stage. [2023 Sept. 11]

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