Lee Maracle

Lee Maracle, of Salish and Cree ancestry, a member of the Sto:loh Nation, was born in North Vancouver, B.C. She She is the mother of four and grandmother of four. The author of a number of critically acclaimed literary works including: Sojourner's and Sundogs, Ravensong, Bobbi Lee, Daughters Are Forever, Will's Garden, Bent Box, I Am Woman, she is also the co-editor of a number of anthologies including the award winning publication, My Home As I Remember. She is a co-author of Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture. Lee is widely published in anthologies and scholarly journals worldwide. She is currently the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University. Besides being an award winning author, Lee is also an award winning instructor and a gifted orator.

Writing available online

Polka Partners, Uptown Indians and White Folks from Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories
My Dreams Stretch Thin, Spoken Word performance, Lee and her daughter, Columpa Bobb [RealAudio]
Salmon Wars from the from the First Peoples Arts Conference [RealAudio]

Awards

Lee received the J.T. Stewart Voices of Change Award in April 2000. She contributed to the book First Fish, First People, which won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Lee has been the Anne Decker Guest Professor at Southern Oregon University. She has also been the 2001 Stanley Knowles Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at the University of Waterloo, held a Visiting Professorship with the Women's Studies program at the University of Toronto where she received the University of Toronto teaching award. She has been a senior lecturer at the University of Toronto's Transitional Year Program and is currently the third Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University

A short biography from the Internet Public Library's Native American Author's Project is available.

Books by Lee Maracle or containing her work

Poetry

Bent Box, Theytus Books. [Buy from Amazon Canada]

Prose

Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, Women's Press [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Ravensong: A Novel, Press Gang Publishers [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Sundogs: A Novel, Theytus Books [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories, Press Gang Publishers [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Sojourner's and Sundogs, Press Gang Publishers [Buy from Amazon Canada]: Review from Canadian Literature
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, Press Gang Publishers [Buy from Amazon Canada]: Review of this book by Jarek St.s. Krysinski
Review by Lesley Graydon
Daughters Are Forever, Raincoast Book Dist. [Buy from Amazon Canada]: Review of this book in the Globe and Mail
Will's Garden, Orca Book Pub. [Buy from Amazon Canada]

Collaborative Prose Works

My Home As I Remember, with Sandra Laronde (Editors),: National Cultural Heritage Foundation, Toronto, Ontario. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
We Get Our Living Like Milk from the Land, [Buy from Amazon Canada]: with Jeannette Armstrong and Delphine Derickson (Editors), Theytus Books
Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures, [Buy from Amazon Canada]: with Sky Lee, Betsy Warlland and Daphne Marlatt (Author-Editors), Press Gang Publishers
Reconciliation: The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, (Gatherings, 13): with Leanne Flett Kruger (Author-Editors), Theytus Publishers. [Buy from Amazon Canada]

Anthologies

Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples:: Two Faces: Unmasking the Faces of Our Divided Nations, Volume 2, Theytus Books. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples: Mother Earth Perspectives: Preservation Through Words, Volume 3, Theytus Books. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples: A Retrospective of the First Decade, Volume 10, Theytus Books. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Satin Shorts, Status of Women Publication, Ottawa, Ontario
Returning the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics, [Buy from Amazon Canada]: Himani Bannerji (Editor), Sister Vision Pr.
Give Back/First Nations Perspectives on Cultural Practice [Buy from Amazon Canada]: (Gallerie: Women Artists' Monograms, No 11) Maria Campbell, Doreen Jensen, Joy Asham Fedorick, Gallerie Pubns.
Bertha, Oxford University Press. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Voices: Being Native in Canada, Linda Jaine and Drew Hayden-Taylor (Editors): University of Saskatchewan. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English,: Daniel David Moses & Terry Goldie (Editors), Oxford University Press. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Native Writers and Canadian Writing: Canadian Literature: Special Issue: William New (Editor), UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Publisher's page for the book
Frictions: Stories by Women, Rhea Tregebov (Editor), Second Story Press. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
First People First Voices, Penny Petrone (Editor), [Buy from Amazon Canada]: University of Toronto Press.
Children of the Dragonfly, Robert Bensen (Editor), [Buy from Amazon Canada]: University of Arizona Press.
Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature, [Buy from Amazon Canada]: Agnes Grant (Editor), Pemmican Pub.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America,: Joy Harjo & Gloria Bird (Editors), W. W. Norton. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim, [Buy from Amazon Canada]: Judith Roche & Meg McHutchison (Editors), Univ Washington Press.
American Book Award 1999 from the Before Columbus Foundation
75 Readings Plus, [Buy from Amazon Canada]: Santi V. Buscemi & Charlotte Smith (Editors), McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages.

Essays and Criticism on the Writing of Lee Maracle

Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition,: Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez, University of Arizona Press. [Buy from Amazon Canada]
Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature,: Dee Horne, Peter Lang. [Buy from Amazon Canada]

This is an "official" site in that this page was constructed with the assistance and active collaboration of the poet, Lee Maracle. The website "author" is Karen M. Strom.

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