Quick Facts
Biography
Waubgeshig Rice is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from Canada. Originally from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ontario, he began his journalism career when he spent a year in Germany on a student exchange program, and wrote an ongoing series of articles about his experience for the First Nations newspaper Anishinabek News.
He graduated from Ryerson University in 2002, and began working as a freelance journalist for media outlets such as The Weather Network and Wasauksing's community radio station CHRZ-FM before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's local news bureau in Winnipeg in 2006 and transferring to Ottawa in 2010. With the CBC, he was a contributor to the radio and television documentary series ReVision Quest and 8th Fire. In 2014, he received the Debwewin Citation for Excellence in First Nations Storytelling from the Union of Ontario Indians. He was named the new host of Up North, CBC Radio One's local afternoon show on its stations in Northern Ontario, in 2018, and has been heard on the national CBC Radio network as a guest host of Unreserved.
He published the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge in 2011, and the novel Legacy in 2014. His second novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in October 2018 by ECW Press, and the audiobook was narrated by actor Billy Merasty and released in December 2018.
Awards
- Independent Publishers Book Award for Midnight Sweatlodge, 2012.
- Northern 'lit' Award for Midnight Sweatlodge, 2012.
- Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling, 2004.
