Waubgeshig Rice grew up in Wasauksing First Nation on the shores of Georgian Bay, in the southeast of Robinson-Huron Treaty territory. He’s a writer, listener, speaker, language learner, and a martial artist, holding a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He is the author of the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge and the novels Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow, and Moon of the Turning Leaves. He graduated from the journalism program at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2002, and spent most of his media career with the CBC as a video journalist and radio host. He aspires to share the language of his people and is currently enrolled in Anishnaabemowin and Program Development at Georgian College. He lives in N’Swakamok – also known as Sudbury, Ontario – with his wife and three sons.
This is a YAC and Yukon University co-presentation.
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