Kyle Edwards is an Anishinaabe writer from Manitoba, Canada. His debut novel, Small Ceremonies, was published in 2025. Retrieved July 6, 2026.
Early life and education 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.
Career His debut novel, Small Ceremonies, was published by Pantheon Books in 2025. It was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2025 Governor General's Awards. The book was nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award and the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.Cassandra Drudi, "Kate Cayley, Antonio Michael Downing, Maria Reva among finalists for Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, May 6, 2026. It was a finalist for the 2026 Young Lions Fiction 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.
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