Occupation poet Role Poet Name Gregory Scofield | Period 1990s-present Nationality Canadian | |
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Notable works The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel, Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez, Thunder Through My Veins Books Louis: The Heretic Poems, Kipocihkan: Poems New and, Native Canadiana, I Knew Two Metis Women, Singing Home the Bones | ||
I'POYI Panel 2 Greg Scofield
Gregory Scofield (born July 20, 1966 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, whose work draws on Cree story-telling traditions.
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A Métis of Cree and European descent, Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel. He has since published seven further volumes of poetry and a non-fiction memoir. He has also served as writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Winnipeg.
In addition to his writing Scofield has been a social worker dealing with street youth in Vancouver, and has taught First Nations and Métis Literature at Brandon University and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Openly gay, he has stated that he does not choose to identify as Two-Spirited due to his lack of training in Cree spiritual tradition.
He is currently an assistant professor of English literature at Laurentian University. In 2016, he won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his lifetime body of work.
He was the subject of a documentary film, Singing Home the Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself, in 2007.
