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Canadian writer
Monique Gray Smith
Born1968 (age 56–57)
OccupationWriter
GenreChildren's literature, young adult fiction
Notable worksTilly, a Story of Hope and Resilience
Notable awardsBurt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature

Monique Gray Smith is a Canadian writer of children's and young adult literature. She is also an international speaker and consultant. Of Cree, Lakota and Scottish descent, Smith is based in Victoria, British Columbia.

Career

She is most noted for her young adult novel Tilly, a Story of Hope and Resilience, which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2014, and her children's picture book My Heart Fills With Happiness, which won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize in 2017. In 2018 she was named as a finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, and for the Burt Award for The Journey Forward, a compilation of two novellas co-written with Richard Van Camp. In the same year she published Tilly and the Crazy Eights, a sequel to her first novel.

In addition to her work as a writer, Smith has worked as a psychiatric nurse in Indigenous communities for over 25 years, having completed formal nurses training at Douglas College. She also spent 5 years working as Instructor for Curriculum Design at the Justice Institute of BC and has been an Inspirational Speaker for Little Drum Consulting for more than 20 years.

Awards

References

  1. "Monique Gray Smith's new book for young readers charts a path to reconciliation". The Next Chapter, August 17, 2018.
  2. ^ "Victoria writer Monique Gray Smith earns B.C. Book Prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, May 2, 2017.
  3. "About Monique Gray Smith", 2019.
  4. "Monique Gray Smith wins Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature". Quill & Quire, September 9, 2014.
  5. "Victoria author Monique Gray Smith nominated for award". Victoria Times-Colonist, September 7, 2018.
  6. "Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves among finalists for $10K CODE Burt Award for Indigenous YA literature". CBC Books, September 20, 2018.
  7. "Tilly and the Crazy Eights". Quill & Quire, September 2018.
  8. Alison Gerlach, PhD; Smith, Monique Gray. "'Walking side by side': Being an occupational therapy change agent in partnership with Indigenous clients and communities". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. Smith, Monique Gray (2019). "Monique Gray Smith". LinkedIn.
  10. ^ "Writing". moniquegraysmith.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  11. "Winners & Finalists | Victoria Book Prize Society". www.victoriabookprizes.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  12. "The Largest Award of Its Kind Celebrates the Best in Canadian Children's Literature". Canadian Children's Book Centre. 2018-09-06. Retrieved 2019-03-04.

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