Smokii Sumac

Smokii Sumac (Winner, Unpublished Poetry in English) is a member of the Ktunaxa nation, a poet, and a PhD Candidate in Indigenous Studies at Trent University. Sumac’s debut poetry collection, you are enough: love poems for the end of the world (Kegedonce Press, 2018), was awarded the Indigenous Voices Award for published poetry in 2019, and he has performed work across Canada including at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and the Queer Arts Festival. Most recently, Sumac returned home toʔamaʔkis ktunaxa, to teach First Nations Studies at the College of the Rockies.