Tanya TalagaTANYA TALAGA is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. Her mother is from Fort William First Nation and her father is Polish Canadian. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Falen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award; was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Non-Fiction; and was CBC's Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer and is the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories. Read More Read Less