Lisa Bird-Wilson#Works
{{Short description|American author and poet}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Lisa Bird-Wilson
| occupation = Author, poet
| genre = Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
| website = {{URL|lisabirdwilson.com}}
| awards = {{Plainlist|
- {{Awards|Fiction Award finalist|year=2022|title=Probably Ruby}}
- {{Awards|Amazon First Novel Award finalist|year=2022|title=Probably Ruby}}
- {{Awards|Danuta Gleed Award finalist|year=2014|title=Just Pretending}}
- {{Awards|National Magazine Awards Silver Medal, Column|year=2019}}
}}
}}
Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Métis and nêhiyaw writer from Saskatchewan of indigenous origin.
Biography
A survivor of the Sixties Scoop, as a child Bird-Wilson was adopted, disconnecting her from her Cree and Métis heritage.{{cite news |url=https://leaderpost.com/entertainment/local-arts/a-one-book-one-province-pick-lisa-bird-wilsons-short-story-collection-is-about-a-search-for-identity/ |title=A One Book One Province pick, Lisa Bird-Wilson's short story collection is about a search for identity |newspaper=Regina Leader-Post |first=Ashley |last=Martin |date=1 March 2019 |access-date=12 April 2020}} This experience informs much of her writing.
Bird-Wilson's debut collection of short stories, Just Pretending (2013), was chosen as the Saskatchewan Library Association's 2019 One Book One Province. The book won four Saskatchewan Book Awards (including 2014 book of the year), and was a finalist for the 2014 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.{{cite news |url=https://thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/local-arts/saskatchewan-arts-board-honours-2018-awards-recipients/wcm/d8a36a96-8330-461b-acf4-d0a2e962c6b2/ |title=Saskatchewan Arts Board honours 2018 awards recipients |first=Ashley |last=Martin |newspaper=Regina Leader-Post |date=26 October 2018 |access-date=12 April 2020}}{{cite journal |url=https://quillandquire.com/awards/2014/05/14/danuta-gleed-literary-award-finalists-announced/ |title=Danuta Gleed Literary Award finalists announced |journal=Quill & Quire |date=14 May 2014 |access-date=12 April 2020}} 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."{{cite journal |url=https://www.thetemzreview.com/amy-mitchell---review-of-lisa-bird-wilsons-just-pretending.html |title=Lisa Bird-Wilson's Just Pretending |first=Amy |last=Mitchell |journal=The /TƐmz/ Review |access-date=12 April 2020}}
She has also published poetry and non-fiction books.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
{{As of|2021}}, Bird-Wilson is CEO of the Gabriel Dumont Institute, the education arm of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan.{{cite news |url=https://panow.com/2021/03/22/gabriel-dumont-institute-announces-new-ceo/ |title=Gabriel Dumont Institute Announces New CEO |date=12 March 2021 |newspaper=PA NOW |access-date=20 February 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/regional-news/curriculum-advisory-committee-created-1.24051320 |title=Curriculum advisory committee created |date=13 January 2020 |newspaper=Yorkton This Week |access-date=12 April 2020}} She is also a founding board member and chair of the Ânskohk Aboriginal Writers' Circle and founding president of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network.
Awards
;2014
- Shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Just Pretending
- University of Regina Book of the Year for Just Pretending{{Cite news|url=https://ammsa.com/publications/saskatchewan-sage/strong-aboriginal-representation-saskatchewan-book-awards|title= Strong Aboriginal representation in Saskatchewan Book Awards |first=Shari |last=Narine |date=27 February 2014 |volume=31 |issue=12 |work=Saskatchewan Sage |access-date=12 April 2020}}
- SaskPower Fiction Award for Just Pretending
- Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples' Writing Award for Just Pretending
- First Nations University of Canada Aboriginal Peoples' Publishing Award for Just Pretending
- YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Arts, Culture or Heritage{{Cite web|url=http://www.ywcasaskatoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Historical-Nominee-list-up-to-2018-1.pdf |title=YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Nominees |page=41 |publisher=YMCA Saskatchewan |access-date=12 April 2020}}
;2017
- John Hodgin's Founder Award for short story "Counselling"{{Cite journal |url=http://www.malahatreview.ca/jack_hodgins_award/2017_winner.html |title=Jack Hodgins Founders' Award for Fiction: 2017 |journal=The Malahat Review |access-date=12 April 2020}}
;2018
- Saskatchewan Arts Board, RBC Emerging Artist Award{{Cite web|url=https://gdins.org/lisa-wilson-receives-2018-saskatchewan-arts-award/ |title=Lisa Wilson Receives 2018 Saskatchewan Arts Award |last=Oloo |first=James |date=21 December 2018 |website=Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research |access-date=12 April 2020}}
;2019
- Silver Medal, Column, National Magazine Awards for "Clowns, Cake, Canoes: This is Canada?"{{Cite web|url=https://magazine-awards.com/en/2019/05/31/announcing-the-winners-of-the-42nd-annual-national-magazine-awards/ |title=Announcing the Winners of the 42nd Annual National Magazine Awards |date=1 June 2019 |website=National Magazine Awards |access-date=12 April 2020}}
;2022
- Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for Probably Ruby[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-retired-bricklayer-among-six-debut-novelists-vying-for-60000-prize/ "Retired bricklayer among six debut novelists vying for $60,000 prize"]. The Globe and Mail, May 10, 2022.
- Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Award for English Fiction for "Probably Ruby";[https://ggbooks.ca/2022-winners-and-finalists]. 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){{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/probably-ruby-1.5419326 |title=Probably Ruby |website=CBC Books |publisher=CBC |date=5 February 2020 |access-date=12 April 2020}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |url=http://malahatreview.ca/interviews/bird-wilson_interview.html |title=Poetry to Prose and Back Again: Cara-Lyn Morgan in Conversation with Lisa Bird-Wilson |journal=The Malahat Review |first=Cara-Lyn |last=Morgan}}
- {{cite journal |url=https://prismmagazine.ca/2017/04/13/i-think-all-canadians-have-a-role-in-reconciliation-an-interview-with-lisa-bird-wilson/ |title=I Think All Canadians Have a Role in Reconciliation: An Interview with Lisa Bird-Wilson |first=Nathaniel G. |last=Moore |journal=Prism International |date=13 April 2017}}
External links
- [https://www.skwriter.com/find-saskatchewan-writers-and-services/browse/241 Lisa Bird-Wilson; Saskatchewan Writers' Guild]
- [https://lisabirdwilson.com Lisa Bird-Wilson Website]
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Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:21st-century Canadian short story writers
Category:Canadian women short story writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Canadian novelists
Category:Canadian women novelists
Category:Sixties Scoop victims