Garry GottfriedsonGarry Gottfriedson, a member of the Secwepemc first nation, was born, raised and still lives in Kamloops, BC. He is a self-employed rancher with a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University. He was awarded the Gerald Red Elk Creative Wrting Scholarship by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied under Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Marianne Faithful and others. His published works include In Honour of Our Grandmothers (Theytus, 1994), 100 Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, 1990), Glass Teepee (Thistledown, 2002), nominated for First People's Publishing Award 2004, Painted Pony (Partners in Publishing, 2005) and Whiskey Bullets (Ronsdale, 2006). He has read from his work across North America and Europe, and more recently, in Taiwan. He is presently finishing his first novel. Read More Read Less