11 Facts About Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline is a writer and a member of the Georgian Bay Metis Council of the Metis Nation of Ontario.

Cherie Dimaline is most notable for her 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, which explores the continued colonial exploitation of Indigenous peoples.

Cherie Dimaline has since published the short story "Seven Gifts for Cedar", the novel The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy, and the short story collection A Gentle Habit.

Cherie Dimaline was the 2019 editor of Little Bird Stories, published by Invisible Publishing and featuring winners of the annual Little Bird Writing Contest run by the Sarah Selecky Writing School.

Cherie Dimaline was the founding editor of Muskrat Magazine, was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Awards for Excellence in Arts in 2014, and became the first Indigenous writer-in-residence for the Toronto Public Library.

Cherie Dimaline was originally a resident of a Metis community in the Georgian Bay area.

Cherie Dimaline has contributed to a variety of projects including the anthology Mitewacimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, published in 2016.

Cherie Dimaline was a columnist and editor for Chatelaine in the early 2000s.

Cherie Dimaline has participated in numerous literary festivals, including Kingston WritersFest, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Ottawa Writers Festival, Wordfest Imaginairium, and Vancouver Writers Fest.

In 2014, Cherie Dimaline was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

Cherie Dimaline's novels have been written about in academia, notably by Niranjana Iyer and Petra Fachinger.