Katherena Vermette

KATHERENA VERMETTE is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses Company), won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her National Film Board short documentary, this river, won the Coup de Coeur award at the Montreal First Peoples Festival and a Canadian Screen Award.

Her first novel, The Break, was a national bestseller and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award; the Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature; and three Manitoba Book Awards. It was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC’s Canada Reads. She is also the author of the children’s picture book series The Seven Teaching Stories and recently published the first book, Pemmican Wars, in the young adult book series A Girl Called Echo. Ms. Vermette’s second book of poetry, river woman, is forthcoming in the fall of 2018 from House of Anansi Press.

Books by Katherena Vermette

The Break Indigo special ed.

The Strangers

Road Allowance Era

Northwest Resistance

An Anthology of Indigenous Literatures in English

Perception

This Place

Red River Resistance

The Girl and the Wolf

river woman special hardcover edition

river woman

Pemmican Wars

Impact

The Break

What is Truth, Betsy?

Misaabe's Stories

Amik Loves School

Kode's Quest(ion)

Singing Sisters

The Just Right Gift

The First Day

Teacher's Guide for Powwow Counting in Cree

North End Love Songs