Marilyn Dumont is a Canadian poet of Cree/Métis descent whose poetry has won provincial and national awards. She has been the writer-in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public Library as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at the Banff Centre. She teaches sessional creative writing for Athabasca University and Native studies and English for the University of Alberta, and currently lives in Edmonton.

A must-read for anyone with a stake in contemporary Canadian literature, or with curiosity about poetry on the world stage.