Portrait of poet Daniel Poitras, an Indigenous man with dark hair, dark eyes and dark facial hair consisting of a soul patch and a goatee. He is wearing a baseball cap and looking up and away from the camera.

Daniel Poitras is a half-breed poet from the Paul First Nation. Currently residing in Edmonton, he writes about the challenges that Indigenous and Metis people face today. He has been published in the Home and Away anthology (House of Blue Skies, 2009), The Malahat Review, Grain Magazine, The Polyglot and in the Edmonton Poetry Festival’s Poetry Moves on Transit program.

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