Homecoming is a poetry collection that reflects our human journey as we grow and learn, and author's personal journey through childhood, marriage, divorce, parenthood, and parents' old age, as well as the author's quest to reclaim and celebrate her Native heritage. The poems in Homecoming are grouped according to the four directions of the Medicine Wheel: East for Beginnings, South for Innocence, West for Going Within, North for Elder and Wisdom, plus three poems for the Centre, the Great Mystery.

Melinda Burns is a status member of the Lower Mohawk First Nation. Her poems have been published in the Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly and One Art. She has also published stories and essays in Grain, Fiddlehead, the Toronto Star, Native Skin, and the New Quarterly. Her essay, Legacy, about the inter-generational impact of her mother's experience at the Mohawk Institute, was a finalist for the Prism International 2023 Creative Non-Fiction prize. She lives in Guelph, Ontario.

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