Cherie Dimaline is the author of six books, including the young adult novel The Marrow Thieves. It won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, a Governor General’s Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers’ Literature, and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. It was also a Book of Year on numerous lists including National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and the CBC. Her adult novel, Empire of Wild, was an Indigo #1 Best Book of 2019. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario, she lives in Midland, Ontario.