Lee Maracle
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Lee Maracle, Salish author
Lee Maracle, of Salish and Cree ancestry, a member of the Stó:lō Nation, was born in North Vancouver, B.C. in 1950. She is the mother of four and grandmother of four and was one of the first Aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s. She is one of the founders of the En'owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, BC, a learning institute with an Indigenous Fine Arts Program and an Okanagon Language Program. Maracle has taught creative writing and held a visiting professorship with the Women's Studies program at the University of Toronto. She was the traditional cultural director for the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and the Aboriginal Mentor in the Transitional Year Program at the University of Toronto. She has been the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University and a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Guelph.
The author of a number of critically acclaimed literary works including: Sojourner's and Sundogs, Ravensong, Bobbi Lee, Daughters Are Forever, Will's Garden, Bent Box, I Am Woman, she is also the co-editor of a number of anthologies including the award winning publication, My Home As I Remember. She is a co-author of Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture. Lee is widely published in anthologies and scholarly journals worldwide. Maracle is an award-winning writer and teacher, and an occasional editor, film story editor, dramaturge, stage actor and a gifted orator.
Maracle is the mother of Columpa Bobb, Canadian actor, playwright, poet and teacher.
Writing available online
Polka Partners, Uptown Indians and White Folks from Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories
The Lost Days of Columbus in Trivia: Voices of Feminism
Study as a Process of Discovery, Transcanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship
My Dreams Stretch Thin, Spoken Word performance, Lee and her daughter, Columpa Bobb [RealAudio]
Salmon Wars from the from the First Peoples Arts Conference [RealAudio]
Awards
Lee received the J.T. Stewart Voices of Change Award in April 2000. She contributed to the book First Fish, First People, which won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Lee has been the Anne Decker Guest Professor at Southern Oregon University. She has also been the 2001 Stanley Knowles Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at the University of Waterloo, held a Visiting Professorship with the Women's Studies program at the University of Toronto where she received the University of Toronto teaching award. She has been a senior lecturer at the University of Toronto's Transitional Year Program and is currently the third Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University.
Books by Lee Maracle or containing her work
Poetry
Bent Box, Theytus Books.
Prose
Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, Women's Press.
Ravensong: A Novel, Press Gang Publishers.
Sundogs: A Novel, Theytus Books.
Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories, Press Gang Publishers.
- Review at Canadian Materials for Young People
Sojourner's and Sundogs, Press Gang Publishers.
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, Press Gang Publishers.
Daughters Are Forever, Raincoast Book Dist.
Will's Garden, Orca Book Pub.
Collaborative Prose Works
My Home As I Remember, with Sandra Laronde (Editors), National Cultural Heritage Foundation, Toronto, Ontario.
We Get Our Living Like Milk from the Land, with Jeannette Armstrong and Delphine Derickson (Editors), Theytus Books.
Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures, with Sky Lee, Betsy Warlland and Daphne Marlatt (Author-Editors), Press Gang Publishers.
Reconciliation: The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, (Gatherings, 13) with Leanne Flett Kruger (Author-Editors), Theytus Publishers.
Anthologies
Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples: Two Faces: Unmasking the Faces of Our Divided Nations, Volume 2, Theytus Books.
Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, Mother Earth Perspectives: Preservation Through Words, Volume 3, Theytus Books.
Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, A Retrospective of the First Decade, Volume 10, Theytus Books.
Satin Shorts, Status of Women Publication, Ottawa, Ontario.
Returning the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics, Himani Bannerji (Editor), Sister Vision Pr.
Give Back/First Nations Perspectives on Cultural Practice (Gallerie: Women Artists' Monograms, No 11) Maria Campbell, Doreen Jensen, Joy Asham Fedorick, Gallerie Pubns.
Bertha, Oxford University Press.
Voices: Being Native in Canada, Linda Jaine and Drew Hayden-Taylor (Editors), University of Saskatchewan.
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, Daniel David Moses & Terry Goldie (Editors), Oxford University Press.
Native Writers and Canadian Writing: Canadian Literature: Special Issue, William New (Editor), UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia
Frictions: Stories by Women, Rhea Tregebov (Editor), Second Story Press.
First People First Voices, Penny Petrone (Editor), University of Toronto Press.
Children of the Dragonfly, Robert Bensen (Editor), University of Arizona Press. Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature, Agnes Grant (Editor), Pemmican Pub.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America, Joy Harjo & Gloria Bird (Editors), W. W. Norton.
First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim, Judith Roche & Meg McHutchison (Editors), Univ Washington Press.
- American Book Award 1999 from the Before Columbus Foundation.
75 Readings Plus, Santi V. Buscemi & Charlotte Smith (Editors), McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages.
Essays and Criticism on the Writing of Lee Maracle
Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition, Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez, University of Arizona Press.
Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature, Dee Horne, Peter Lang.
See Also
Storyteller Lives Between Fiction and Myth, University of Guelph
Profile of Lee from BC Bookworld
Article in the McGill Daily
A short biography from the Internet Public Library's Native American Author's Project.
This page is part of the Storytellers: Native American Authors Online project.
