Jennifer Manuel

Jennifer Manuel has achieved acclaim for her fiction winning the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float (2016). A long-time activist in Indigenous issues, Manuel taught elementary and high school in the lands of the Tahltan and Nuuchah-nulth peoples. She lives on Vancouver Island, BC.

Co-curator of Roots and Renewal: Indigenous Narratives of Home and Identity and Poetry as Story, Voice as Ceremony