Marilyn Dumont

Marilyn Dumont (born 1955, Olds, Alberta) is a Canadian poet and educator of Cree / Métis descent.

Born in northeastern Alberta, she is a descendant of Gabriel Dumont. Dumont holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her work is widely anthologized. She is currently a Full Professor at the University of Alberta cross appointed in the Faculties of Arts and Native Studies. In the Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Department she teaches Indigenous Literature and creative writing.

Bibliography

• A Really Good Brown Girl. London, ON: Brick, 1996.
• Green Girl Dreams Mountains. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2001.
• that tongued belonging. Cape Croker ON: Kegedonce Press, 2007
• in German: diese Zugehörigkeit durch die Zunge, in: Heute sind wir hier. We Are Here Today. A Bilingual Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Literature(s) from Canada. ed. Hartmut Lutz. Publisher: M.u.H. von der Linden, Wesel 2009
• Ed. Initiations: a Selection of Young Native Writings. Penticton: Theytus Books, 2007.

Awards

• 1997: Gerald Lampert Award, A Really Good Brown Girl
• 2001: Alberta Book Award for Poetry, Green Girl Dreams Mountains
• 2001: Writer's Guild of Alberta Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Green Girl Dreams Mountains
• 2007: McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, That Tongued Belonging
• 2019: Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award

Notable criticism

• Barkwell, Lawrence J.: Marilyn Dumont, in Women of the Métis Nation. Winnipeg: Louis Riel Institute, 2010.
• Patrick Schmitz: The aspect of healing in the poetry of Gregory Scofield, Marilyn Dumont, Roo Borson and Louise Bernice Halfe. Grin, Munich 2012
• Vesna Lopičić: The devil’s language of Marilyn Dumont. . In: Neohelicon, Springer (Netherlands) March 2017, pp 1–12, print:

External links

• Brock University: Canadian Women Poets
• Item at English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University, added: bibliography by and about her

References