Lisa Bird-Wilson

Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Métis and nêhiyaw writer from Saskatchewan.

Personal life A survivor of the Sixties Scoop, as a child Bird-Wilson was adopted, disconnecting her from her Cree and Métis heritage. This experience informs much of her writing.

Career Bird-Wilson's debut collection of short stories, Just Pretending (2013), was chosen as the Saskatchewan Library Association's 2019 One Book One Province. Reviewing the stories for The /tƐmz/ Review, Amy Mitchell says "the stories and characters are so alive, and the writing is so beautiful in its stripped-down simplicity."

She has also published poetry and non-fiction books.

, Bird-Wilson is CEO of the Gabriel Dumont Institute, the education arm of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan. She is also a founding board member and chair of the Ânskohk Aboriginal Writers' Circle and founding president of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network. SaskPower Fiction Award for Just Pretending 2017 John Hodgin's Founder Award for short story "Counselling" 2018 Saskatchewan Arts Board, RBC Emerging Artist Award 2019 Silver Medal, Column, National Magazine Awards for "Clowns, Cake, Canoes: This is Canada?" 2022 Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for Probably Ruby Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Award for English Fiction for "Probably Ruby"; 2022

Works An Institute of Our Own: A History of the Gabriel Dumont Institute, non-fiction (Gabriel Dumont Press, 2011) Just Pretending, short stories (Coteau Books, 2013) The Red Files, poetry (Nightwood Editions, 2016) Probably Ruby, novel (Doubleday Canada, 2021)