Gregory Scofield
| Gregory Scofield | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 20, 1966 Maple Ridge, British Columbia |
| Occupation | poet |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Notable works | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel, Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez, Thunder Through My Veins |
Gregory Scofield (born July 20, 1966 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia)[1] is a Canadian poet,[1] whose work draws on Cree literary traditions.[2]
A Métis of Cree, European and Jewish descent,[1] Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel.[1] He has since published five further volumes of poetry and a non-fiction memoir. He has also served as writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland[1] and the University of Winnipeg.[2]
In addition to his writing Scofield has been a social worker dealing with street youth in Vancouver,[1] and has taught First Nations and Métis Literature at Brandon University and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design,[1]
Openly gay,[3] Scofield identified as Two-Spirited early in his career,[4] later choosing to identify as gay due to his lack of training in Cree spiritual tradition.[4] He was the subject of a documentary film, Singing Home the Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself, in 2007.[1]
He is currently an assistant professor of English literature at Laurentian University.[5] In 2016, he won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his body of work.[6]
Works
- The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel (1993)
- Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez (1996)
- Love Medicine and One Song (1997)
- I Knew Two Métis Women (1999)
- Thunder Through My Veins (1999)
- Singing Home the Bones (2005)
- kipocihkân: Poems New & Selected (2009)
- Witness, I Am (2016)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gregory Scofield at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- 1 2 "Margaret Laurence classic inspires author Gregory Scofield". CBC Manitoba, March 4, 2013.
- ↑ Interview: Gregory Scofield. January Magazine, September 1999.
- 1 2 June Scudeler, "Gifts of Maskihkîy: Gregory Scofield's Cree Métis Stories of Self-Acceptance". pp. 190-210 in Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley and Scott Lauria Morgensen, eds. Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. University of Arizona Press, 2011. ISBN 0816529078.
- ↑ "LUminaries highlights Aboriginal experience". Northern Life, October 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Yasuko Thanh among 2016 Writers' Trust Prize winners". CBC Books, November 2. 2016.