Gregory Scofield

Gregory Scofield (born July 20, 1966 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia)^[1] is a Canadian poet,^[1] whose work draws on Cree literary traditions.^[2]

A Métis of Cree, European and Jewish descent,^[1] Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel.^[1] He has since published five further volumes of poetry and a non-fiction memoir. He has also served as writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland^[1] and the University of Winnipeg.^[2]

In addition to his writing Scofield has been a social worker dealing with street youth in Vancouver,^[1] and has taught First Nations and Métis Literature at Brandon University and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design,^[1]

Openly gay,^[3] Scofield identified as Two-Spirited early in his career,^[4] later choosing to identify as gay due to his lack of training in Cree spiritual tradition.^[4]

He was the subject of a documentary film, Singing Home the Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself, in 2007.^[1]

Works

• The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel (1993)
• Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez (1996)
• Love Medicine and One Song (1997)
• I Knew Two Métis Women (1999)
• Thunder Through My Veins (1999)
• Singing Home the Bones (2005)
• kipocihkân: Poems New & Selected (2009)

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