- October 22 2025, 7:30 - 9 pm
Marilyn Dumont, this year's Gustafson Distinguished Poet, will deliver a public reading at Shq'apthut (A Gathering Place) , along with musicians and student poet Susan Garcia from VIU’s Creative Writing and Journalism Department. All are welcome!
Biography: Marilyn Dumont is a celebrated poet of Métis ancestry. Her first collection of poetry, A Really Good Brown Girl (1996), won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets; it continues to be read and course-adopted across Canada and in the US. The Pemmican Eaters (2015) won the 2016 Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Her most recent book is South Side of a Kinless River (Brick Books, 2024). 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 is a full professor of Indigenous Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
