John Brady McDoanld

John Brady McDonald is a Nhiyawak-Mtis writer, artist, historian, musician, playwright, actor and activist born and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and the Mistawasis Nhiyawak. He is the author of seveal books, and his written works have been published and presented around the globe. Kitotam, a poetry collection, was published by Radiant Press in 2021, and Carrying It Forward, a book of essays, was published in 2022 and won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-fiction and the Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award. He is also an acclaimed public speaker, who has presented in venues across the globe, such as the nskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival, the Black Hills Seminars on Reclaiming Youth, the Appalachian Mountain Seminars, the Edmonton and Fort McMurray Literary Festival, the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and the Ottawa International Writers Festival. A noted polymath, John lives in Northern Saskatchewan.