Jónína KirtonJónína Kirton, a Red River Métis/Icelandic poet, graduated from the Simon Fraser University Writer's Studio in 2007, where she is now an instructor. Although she acknowledges and is thankful for the teachings offered through academic institutions, sh leans heavily into what some term "other ways of knowing." Her writing is often a weaving of body and land, as she firmly believes that until we care for women's bodies we will not care for the earth.

A late-blooming poet, she was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver's Mayor's Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Woman, was a finalist for the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

A landless Métis citizen, she currently lives in New Westminster, British Columbia, the unceded territory of many Coast Salish nations, including the Qayqayt, S'ólh Téméxw (Stó lō), sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ(Tsawwassen), sxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, Stz'uminus, sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie) and Kwantlen.