Mihku Paul

Mihku Paul (born 1958) is a First Nations poet, visual artist, storyteller, and activist. She was born into the Maliseet Nation and she is a member of Kingsclear First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada. Mihku Paul currently resides in Portland, Maine where she teaches creative writing at the Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England.

Mihku Paul has also been published in magazines including Cabildo Quarterly Online.

Paul has recently been credited with writing a chapter in Transforming Our Practices which is a teach pedagogy text that focuses on Indigenous educational paradigms.

Visual arts Mihku Paul combines her poetry with visual art, creating works in pen and ink, watercolor, gouache, and mixed media collage. Although she never had any formal education in the visual arts field, she looks to support her identity through her artistic values. Paul's first multi-media exhibit was a 2010 installation at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, entitled "Look Twice: The Waponahki in Image & Verse.” The poems that are published in the anthology Dawnland Voices were paired with photographs and her own drawings. She looked to use this piece as a way to redirect the viewers objective thoughts on Native American life and history. Her other pieces, which include medicine wheel paintings have been auctioned off for fundraising to support arts in the schools and by the Sierra Club to support local and regional projects.

Activism During her experience within the educational system off of her Maliseet reservation, she dealt with racism and discrimination. Paul looked to enhance the experience within education with the inclusion of Native Americans as people as well as their history.