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katherena vermette (she/her/hers) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has worked in poetry, novels, children’s literature, and film.

Katherena Vermette receives an Honourary Degree from the University of Manitoba
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Interview for UBC's Anti-Racist Bookclub back in February
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My Giller Book Club interview with the great Catherine Hernandez
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The Strangers is now available in Australia and New Zealand with University of Queensland Press
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"Thursday,  Feb 10 I get to hang out with Richard Van Camp at University of Toronto's Literature Matters Series. Sign...
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"Composer Ian Cusson made an opera song out of some of my wintery poems! A weird and beautiful coming together...
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"Echo is a CBC Best of 2021 pick."
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Here is this year's interview with Rhonda Douglas at the Ottawa Writers Festival
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Here's an interview with the Canadian Women's Foundation from 2020
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The very talented folks at the Writers Trust made a nice little video for The Strangers.
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Echo est en francais maintenant!
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I am so delighted to win the first ever Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Award for Fiction!
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I got asked for my "Winnipeg Guide!" Toronto Star
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The Next Chapter Interview 2021. It's always such a pleasure to talk with Shelagh Rogers
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Watch the Writers Trust Awards on November 3rd
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So delighted to have The Strangers as Chapters Indigo's Book of the Year!
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It is such an honour to have my book on the shortlist for the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction...
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Katherena's Event Schedule September and October 2021
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This Place Podcast – This Place the book is now a podcast, too. 
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Panel recording – I was on a panel with some of my favourite people for Indigenous Day
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I am so happy to be the Director of the Banff Arts Centre's Emerging Writers Residency - deadline for this...
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I did a podcast with my friend, superstar David Robertson
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See the gorgeous cover (art by the great KC Adams) and read an excerpt of my forthcoming novel, The Strangers
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A Girl Called Echo, Volume 3, Northwest Resistance is nominated for an Aurora Award!
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Katherena talks about Echo in Le Metis
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Crowdfunding for University of Winnipeg's Family Scholarship - inspired by North End Love Songs
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Echo 4 is available now!
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Katherena reads at the The Centre for Creative Writing & Oral Culture Welcome Event
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World Literature Today reviews River Woman
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The Girl and The Wolf reviewed in CBC Books
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Quill & Quire reviews The Girl and The Wolf
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The Toronto Star reviews River Woman
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Quill & Quire reviews River Woman
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Quill & Quire reviews This River
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The Globe & Mail Reviews The Break
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The Globe & Mail reviews The Break
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National Post reviews The Break
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The Toronto Quarterly interviews Katherena Vermette in honour of her GG Award
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The Walrus interviews Katherena Vermette in honour of her GG Award
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A portrait of the author wearing a beaded bracelet.

Katherena Vermette

A portrait of the author wearing a beaded bracelet.

Katherena Vermette (she/her/hers) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has worked in poetry, novels, children’s literature, and film.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, her father’s roots run deep in St. Boniface, St. Norbert and beyond, dating back over two centuries. Her mother’s side is Mennonite from the Altona and Rosenfeld area (Treaty 1).

Vermette received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Company). The Break (House of Anansi) won several awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. Her National Film Board documentary, this river won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia.

Road Allowance Era (HighWater Press) is the final installment of her graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo and is listed among CBC Books 21 Canadian comics to watch for in Spring 2021. The Strangers (Hamish Hamilton) is the follow up to her award winning debut novel, The Break and will include previous characters set in the same world.

Katherena lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River.

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