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A Winter's Evening with Poet Sharron Proulx-Tumer!
By Sara ChangSimon Fraser University's English Department presents a reading and discussion with Métis poet Sharron Proulx-Turner.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
AQ 6106, SFU (Burnaby campus)
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Sharron Proulx-Turner is a member of the Mé tis Nation of Alberta. Originally from the Ottawa river valley, she's from Mohawk, Algonquin, Wyandot, Ojibwe, Mi'kmaw, French, Scottish and Irish ancestry. She's a two-spirit mom of three adult children, Graham, Barb and Adrian, mother-in-law to Harold, and nokomis to Willow, Jessinia and Mazie. Her previously published memoir, Where the Rivers Join (1995), written under a pseudonym, was a finalist for the Edna Staebler award for creative non-fiction. Her second book, What The Auntys Say (2002), was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Prize for best first book of poetry. Sharron's work appears in several anthologies and journals. In the Fall of 2008, she published two books: She Walks For Days/ Inside A Thousand Eyes (A Two-Spirit Story), with Turnstone Press, and She Is Reading Her Blanket With Her Hands with Frontenac Press.
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