Cherie Dimaline

Festival Participant

Cherie Dimaline is the writer-in-residence for First Nations House at the University of Toronto. Before taking this job, she spent time working for the Ontario government, running a Native Friendship Centre, assisting at a large women's magazine, curating a police museum, and as a magician's assistant. Her first book, Red Rooms, was published in 2007.

Her work appears in two 2011 McGraw-Hill Ryerson texts; an anthology of love stories called Zaagidiwin (Ningwakwe Press); in a limited edition volume of gothic stories about Toronto produced for the 2009 Luminato Festival (Diaspora Dialogues) and will be featured in several upcoming collections including Exotic Gothic 4 (PS Publishing) and a book of traditional Metis Rogarou tales (University of Alberta). In 2010, she published Seven Gifts for Cedar, a children's book geared towards Aboriginal family literacy.
Her novel The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy will be published in 2012 by Theytus Books.

Cherie and her husband live in Toronto where she is the editor of First Nations House Magazine and a member of the founding editorial board for Muskrat Magazine, an online indigenous publication.