Brandi Bird is a

Saulteaux The Saulteaux (pronounced , or in imitation of the French pronunciation , also written Salteaux, Saulteau and Ojibwa ethnonyms, other variants), otherwise known as the Plains Ojibwe, are a First Nations in Canada, First Nations band governm ...

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and

Métis The Métis ( , , , ) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States. They ha ...

poet from

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, most noted for their 2023 collection ''The All + Flesh''."The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird"

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, August 16, 2023. The book was the winner of the 2024 Indigenous Voices Award for English poetry, and was shortlisted for the

Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert. Each winner receive ...

and the Raymond Souster Award by the

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, and the

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for English-language poetry at the

2024 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2024 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 8, 2024, and the winners were announced on November 13.Cassandra Drudi"Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award ...

. ''The All + Flesh'' was Bird's first full-length book, although they have previously published chapbooks and had work released in literary magazines. They received several prior Indigenous Voices nominations for both published and unpublished poetry, including for ''Two Poems'' in 2018, ''I Am Still Too Much'' in 2020, ''Ode to Diabetes'' in 2021, and ''A Dawn'' in 2022."Selina Boan, Tenille K. Campbell and Brian Thomas Isaac among finalists for the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards"

, May 6, 2022. Originally from

Treaty 1 ''Treaty 1'' (also known as the "Stone Fort Treaty") is an agreement established on August 3, 1871, between the Crown and the Anishinaabe and Swampy Cree, Canadian based First Nations. The first of a series of treaties called the Numbered Treatie ...

territory in

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, Bird is currently a student at the

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. They identify as

indigiqueer ''Two-spirit'' (also known as ''two spirit'' or occasionally ''twospirited'', or abbreviated as ''2S'' or ''2E'', especially in Canada) is a umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a trad ...

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