Connie Fife (August 27, 1961 – February 3, 2017) was a Canadian Cree poet and editor. She published three books of poetry, and edited several anthologies of First Nations women's writing. Her work appeared in numerous other anthologies and literary magazines.[1]
In 2000, she was one of four writers, alongside Dan David, Walter Nanawin and Anna Marie Sewell, awarded the special one-time Prince and Princess Edward Prize in Aboriginal Literature from the Canada Council for the Arts.[2] The jury of the award described her pen as "fearless."[3] From 1990 to 1992 she was a writer-in-residence at the En'owkin School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia,[4] where she was awarded a fellowship from the Canadian Native Arts Foundation to study creative 1992.[5]
The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women (1998)
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^Bateman, David. "Review of Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology." Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal. Ed. Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer. Vol. 35. 2003. 161-162. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 298. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Literature Criticism Online. Web. 8 July 2015. Gale Document Number:GALE|AOWYHX008922976.
^"Writers' Trust Presents LGBT Literary Award to Author and Screenwriter, Tamai Kobayashi" 2015-07-10 at the Wayback Machine. Writers' Trust of Canada, June 23, 2014.
^"Aboriginal women are at greater risk". Ammsa.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
^"Connie Fife". Academic De-Stressor. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
January 01, 1970
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