Louise Halfe

Halfe, whose Cree name in English is Sky Dancer, was born on the Saddle Lake Reserve in Two Hills, Alberta, and she attended the Blue Quills Residential School. She currently lives near Saskatoon.

Bear Bones and Feathers received the Canadian Peoples Poet Award and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award. Blue Marrow was a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award, as well as for the 1998 Saskatchewan Poetry and Saskatchewan Book of the Year awards.

Louise Halfe was Saskatchewan’s Poet Laureate in 2005 and 2006.