Wanda John-Kehewin

Wanda John-Kehewin(she/her/hers) is a Cree writer who uses her work to understand and respond to the near destruction of First Nations cultures, languages, and traditions. When she first arrived in Vancouver on a Greyhound bus, she was a pregnant nineteen-year-old carrying little more than a bag of chips, a bottle of pop, thirty dollars, and hope. After many years travelling (well, mostly stumbling) along her healing journey, she now writes to stand in her truth and to share that truth openly. A published poet and fiction author, her first novel for young adults,Hopeless in Hope, was nominated for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and was named to USBBY's Outstanding International Books list.