Tara Lee Morin

Tara Lee Morin is a Canadian writer, who was a finalist for the 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature for her book As I Remember It.

Born in a remote First Nations community in northern Manitoba to a teenage mother, Morin was removed by social services authorities from her birth home and spent her childhood growing up in a series of foster homes. As an adolescent she struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, and was involved in both criminal activity and prostitution.