Gregory Scofield

GREGORY SCOFIELD is a mixed-blood writer of Cree, Scottish, English and French ancestry who can trace his family back to the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. He is the author of four books of poetry, including I Knew Two Métis Women. He is the winner of the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for the most promising young writer of 1996 and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, he spent much of his childhood in the bush in northern Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba and the Yukon. A former street youth outreach worker in Vancouver, he has now returned to Maple Ridge.