Alexandra Shimo

Alexandra Shimo is a Canadian writer, who was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards as cowriter of Edmund Metatawabin's memoir Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History. The book became a national bestseller, and was named one of the best books of 2014 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Hill Times and Quill and Quire. In February 2015, it was named one of the winners of the CBC's Bookie Awards.
A freelance journalist who has contributed to the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Maclean's, the National Post, The Globe and Mail and Toronto Life, she is also the author of The Environment Equation: 100 Factors That Can Add to or Subtract From Your Total Carbon Footprint.
Her third book, Invisible North, is about the Kashechewan crisis and came out in 2016.
An out lesbian, she is the partner of activist Lia Grimanis. She also serves on the advisory board of Grimanis' charitable organization Up With Women.

WINNER 2016 - Speaker's Book Award

WINNER 2015 – CBC Books Bookie Award for Non-Fiction

WINNER 2015 – Ontario Historical Society’s Donald Grant Creighton Award

FINALIST 2014 – Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction

FINALIST 2015–2016 – Trillium Book Award

FINALIST 2015–2016 – First Nation Communities Read

• The Environment Equation: 100 Factors That Can Add to or Subract From Your Total Carbon Footprint (2008)
• Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History (2014)
• Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve (2016)