Connie Fife

Connie Fife is a Cree-Canadian poet and editor. She has published three books of poetry, and has edited several anthologies of First Nations women's writing. Her work has also appeared in numerous other anthologies and literary magazines. Originally from Saskatchewan, she was a longtime resident of Victoria, British Columbia, and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was awarded a fellowship from the Canadian Native Arts Foundation to study creative writing at the En'owkin School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia in 1992. In 2000, she was one of four writers, alongside Dan David, Walter Nanawin and Anna Marie Sewell, awarded the special one-time Prince and Princess Edward Prize in Aboriginal Literature from the Canada Council for the Arts. An out lesbian, she served on the jury of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.

Poetry

• Beneath the Naked Sun (1992)
• Speaking Through Jagged Rock (1999)
• Poems for a New World (2001)

Anthologies

• Fireweed Native Women’s Issue, No. 26 (1986)
• Gatherings 2 (1991)
• The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women (1998)