Gregory Scofield

Gregory Scofield
Born July 20, 1966
Maple Ridge, British Columbia
Occupation poet
Nationality Canadian
Period 1990s-present
Notable works The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel, Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez, Thunder Through My Veins

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]

He is currently an assistant professor of English literature at Laurentian University.[5] In 2016, he won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his body of work.[6]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gregory Scofield at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. 1 2 "Margaret Laurence classic inspires author Gregory Scofield". CBC Manitoba, March 4, 2013.
  3. Interview: Gregory Scofield. January Magazine, September 1999.
  4. 1 2 June Scudeler, "Gifts of Maskihkîy: Gregory Scofield's Cree Métis Stories of Self-Acceptance". pp. 190-210 in Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley and Scott Lauria Morgensen, eds. Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. University of Arizona Press, 2011. ISBN 0816529078.
  5. "LUminaries highlights Aboriginal experience". Northern Life, October 15, 2014.
  6. "Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Yasuko Thanh among 2016 Writers' Trust Prize winners". CBC Books, November 2. 2016.


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