Kyle Edwards is an Anishinaabe writer from Manitoba, Canada, whose debut novel Small Ceremonies was published in 2025.
Edwards is a member of the Ebb and Flow First Nation and grew up on the Lake Manitoba First Nation. He studied journalism at Ryerson University. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California, where he is a provost fellow.
His debut novel Small Ceremonies was published in 2025. It was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2025 Governor General's Awards. Small Ceremonies was also nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award.
He is a member of the editorial staff at The New Yorker. He has published work for BBC News, Maclean's, Native News Online, CBC News and the Toronto Star. He won the CAJ/JHR Emerging Indigenous Journalist Award in 2019.