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Marilyn Dumont

Marilyn Dumont is the author of four collections of poems: A Really Good Brown Girl (winner of the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award), green girl dreams Mountains (winner of the Writer’s Guild of Alberta’s 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award), That Tongued Belonging (winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year and Aboriginal Book of the Year Award) and The Pemmican Eaters (published in 2015 by ECW Press). Marilyn has been Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library and in numerous universities across Canada. In addition, she has been faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts’ Writing with Style and Wired Writing programs, as well as an advisor and mentor in their Indigenous Writers’ Program. She serves as a board member on The Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada, and freelances for a living.

Books by Marilyn Dumont

South Side of a Kinless River

by (author) Marilyn Dumont

Reclamation and Resurgence

The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont

by (author) Marilyn Dumont
edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo

Best Canadian Poetry 2020

guest editor Marilyn Dumont
series edited by Anita Lahey
consultant editor Amanda Jernigan

Locations of Grief

An Emotional Geography

edited by Catherine Owen
contributions by Alice Major, Katherine Bitney, Alice Burdick, Marilyn Dumont, Ben Gallagher, Catherine Greenwood, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Richard Harrison, David Haskins, Steven Heighton, Theresa Kishkan, Christine Lowther, Canisia Lubrin, James Picard, Nikki Reimer, Waubgeshig Rice, Lisa Richter, Lynn Tait, Sharon Thesen, Onjana Yawnghwe & Daniel Zomparelli
by (author) Jenna Butler & Catherine Graham

A Really Good Brown Girl

by (author) Marilyn Dumont
introduction by Lee Maracle

A Really Good Brown Girl

Brick Books Classics 4

by (author) Marilyn Dumont
introduction by Lee Maracle

The Pemmican Eaters

by (author) Marilyn Dumont

Initiations

A Selection of Young Native Writings

edited by Marilyn Dumont

that tongued belonging

by (author) Marilyn Dumont