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.Canada Council for the Arts. Public Lending Right Commission. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Dumont holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.Athabasca University . Author biography. Retrieved 2012-02-17. 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
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