Tradeswoman, artist, and teacher, Lorrie Potvin, is a queerish two-spirited mix of French, Finnish. and Algonquin ancestry belonging to the Mattawa / North Bay Algonquin First Nation. Working and teaching in the trades for over thirty years, Potvin holds an Inter-Provincial Red Seal in Auto Body Repair and Refinishing from Algonquin College, and a diploma in Technological Education from the Faculty of Education, Queen's University, with additional qualifications in Manufacturing and Special Education. She lives on a lake in Godfrey, Ontario, north of Kingston, in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee, where she has spent twenty-five years building her home and creating art made of stone, wood, hide, and steel. Her first book, First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir , was published in 2015.