Marilyn Dumont (born 1955) is a Canadian poet and educator of

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descent. Born in northeastern Alberta, she is a descendant of Gabriel Dumont.Canada Council for the Arts
Public Lending Right Commission. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Dumont holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.Athabasca University
. Author biography. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Her work is widely anthologized. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Department and teaches creative writing.

Bibliography

*''A Really Good Brown Girl''. London, ON: Brick, 1996. *''Green Girl Dreams Mountains''. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2001. *''that tongued belonging''. Cape Croker ON: Kegedonce Press, 2007 ** in German: ''diese Zugehörigkeit durch die Zunge'', in: ''Heute sind wir hier. We Are Here Today. A Bilingual Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Literature(s) from Canada.'' ed.

Hartmut Lutz Hartmut Lutz (born April 26, 1945) is professor emeritus and former chair of American and Canadian studies: Anglophone literatures and cultures of North America at the University of Greifswald, Germany. He is the founder of the Institut für Anglis ...

. Publisher: M.u.H. von der Linden, Wesel 2009 * Ed. ''Initiations: a Selection of Young Native Writings.'' Penticton: Theytus Books, 2007.

Awards

*1997: Gerald Lampert Award, ''A Really Good Brown Girl'' *2001: Alberta Book Award for Poetry, ''Green Girl Dreams Mountains'' *2001: Writer's Guild of Alberta

Stephan G. Stephansson Award Stephan G. Stephansson (October 3, 1853 – August 10, 1927) was a Western Icelander, poet, and farmer. His given name was Stefán Guðmundur Guðmundsson. He was born in Skagafjörður, Iceland but immigrated to Wisconsin, United States in ...

for Poetry, ''Green Girl Dreams Mountains'' *2007: McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, ''That Tongued Belonging'' *2019: Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award

Notable criticism

* Barkwell, Lawrence J.: ''Marilyn Dumont'', in ''Women of the Métis Nation.'' Winnipeg: Louis Riel Institute, 2010. * Patrick Schmitz: ''The aspect of healing in the poetry of Gregory Scofield, Marilyn Dumont, Roo Borson and Louise Bernice Halfe.'' Grin, Munich 2012 * Vesna Lopičić: ''The devil’s language of Marilyn Dumont.'' . In: Neohelicon, Springer (Netherlands) March 2017, pp 1–12, print:

External links

Brock University: Canadian Women Poets

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Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public research university that primarily operates through online distance education. Founded in 1970, it is one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta, and was the first ...

, added: bibliography by and about her

References

1955 births Living people 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Métis writers Canadian Métis people 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-poet-stub