Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory. Her work has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry; the Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature; and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award; and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads.
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ADVICE FOR THE LIT-LORN Why doesn’t anyone in North America say barmy for balmy? According to my research, Barmy came first and still enjoys a jolly life. But most North American dictionaries don’t even mention the earlier Scots barmy. —Simon McGavin, Cyberspace |