Marilyn DumontMarilyn Dumont is the author of four collections of poems: A REALLY GOOD BROWN GIRL (winner of the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award), green girl dreams Mountains (winner of the Writer's Guild of Alberta's 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award), tha tongued belonging (winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year and Aboriginal Book of the Year Award) and The Pemmican Eaters (published in 2015 by ECW Press). The original Brick Books edition of A REALLY GOOD BROWN GIRL was reprinted thirteen times, and selections from the book are widely anthologized in secondary and post-secondary texts. Marilyn has been Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library and in numerous universities across Canada. In addition, she has been faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts' Writing with Style and Wired Writing programs, as well as an advisor and mentor in their Indigenous Writers' Program. She serves as a board member on The Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada, and freelances for a living. Read More Read Less