Occupation poet, editor Nationality Cree, Canadian | Name Connie Fife Role Poet | |
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Books Poems for a new world, Speaking through jagged rock, Beneath the Naked Sun: Poetry, Tracing Cultures | ||
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Connie Fife - 1961-2017 is a Cree Canadian poet and editor. She had published three books of poetry, and had edited several anthologies of First Nations women's writing. Her work appeared in numerous other anthologies and literary magazines.
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Originally from Saskatchewan, she was a longtime resident of Victoria, British Columbia, and resided in Winnipeg, Manitoba, YukonToronto,Ontario
She was awarded a fellowship from the Canadian Native Arts Foundation to study creative writing at the En'owkin School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia in 1992. In 2000, she was one of four writers, alongside Dan David, Walter Nanawin and Anna Marie Sewell, awarded the special one-time Prince and Princess Edward Prize in Aboriginal Literature from the Canada Council for the Arts.
An out lesbian, she served on the jury of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.