Wendy Proverbs

Wendy Proverbs is an award-winning Indigenous author of Kaska Dena descent. Her debut novel, Aggie & Mudgy: The Journey of Two Kaska Dene Children, won the Victoria Butler Book Prize and the Jeanne Clarke Local History Award and was nominated for the First Nations Communities READ Award and the Rocky Mountain Book Award. Proverbs holds a BA and MA in anthropology from the University of Victoria. Like thousands of Indigenous people across Canada, as an infant she was caught in the sweeping scoop of Indigenous children taken from their birth families and was only reunited with biological family members as a young adult. She has acted as a community liaison with Indigenous communities and strives to help younger generations, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, learn more about their past. She lives in Victoria, BC.