Erica Violet Lee
Biographie
Erica Violet Lee is a nehiyaw writer, scholar, and community organizer. With an educational background in political and feminist theory, Lee’s work centers on decolonization and social activism with an emphasis on uplifting Indigenous women. Her political writing has appeared in The Guardian, the Globe and Mail, and CBC Indigenous while her poetry has appeared in Brick, Contemporary Verse 2, and Held Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, On The Prairies We Will Live Forever, is forthcoming in 2024 with Penguin Random House Canada. Lee lives in Treaty Six Territory (Saskatoon).
Biography sourced from Writers' Trust of Canada.
Entrevue
Offhand, I loved (and still love) Langston Hughes, EE cummings, Maya Angelou, and Walt Whitman.
I've written poetry since I was able to write anything at all.
To be a documenter of and participant in our times. To imagine better lives for our people.