Authors & Headliners

Mackenzie Ground is a nehiyawiskwew from Enoch maskekosihk Cree Nation and Edmonton amiskwacîwâskahikan. She is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University in the Department of English. She is a writer, visual artist, and a language learner of nehiyawewin, and her work considers the relationships of language, identity, and place to the land, to cities, and to the more-than-human beings who live there. She often works with writing, story, images, drawings, and collage. Her writing has appeared in The Capilano Review, The Denver Quarterly, and C Magazine, among others. She is thankful for the support of her friends, family, partner, and cats.

To learn more, visit her website: www.mground.ca.