Angeline Boulley

Angeline Boulley (born 1966) is a Native American (Ojibwe) author and has worked to improve education for Indigenous children. Her debut work, Firekeeper's Daughter, was named one of the top 100 young adult novels of all time by Time magazine. It was also a New York Times best seller and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 2022. The novel will be adapted into a miniseries by Higher Ground.

Personal life Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She was born and raised in "Bahweting (the place of the rapids) in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan."

She is a graduate of Central Michigan University.

Her "father is a traditional firekeeper, who strikes ceremonial fires at spiritual activities in the tribal community and ensures protocols are followed, while providing cultural teachings through stories told around the fire." The book is a New York Times best seller. In the same year, it was named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List with an "Outstanding Merit" distinction and shared the Committee's 2022 Josette Frank Award with Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson's Milo Imagines the World. The German translation, which retains the English title and was published in 2022 by cbj, was nominated in March 2023 for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in the category "YA novel".

The novel is being adapted for television at Netflix by Higher Ground Productions, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company.

Boulley's third novel, Sisters in the Wind was published in 2025 and takes place in the same fictionalized world of her tribe and community as the first two novels.