Autor/-in: Mackenzie Ground

Mackenzie Ground is a nehiyawiskwew from Enoch maskekosihk Cree Nation and Edmonton amiskwacîwâskahikan, Alberta. She is a writer, artist, and scholar, and she is a language learner of nehiyawewin (the Plains Cree language). Her writing has appeared in The Capilano Review. , The Polyglot. , and C Magazine. among others. She is a member of the Writing Revolution in Place research collective, and she is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University in the Department of English. Some of her awards include the Bin Ramke Prize in Poetry from the Denver Quarterly in 2022 and a doctoral research SSHRC, and she was a finalist for the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. She has also narrated the audiobook Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina. She is thankful for the support of her friends, family, partner, and cats. Her website is mground. ca.