It was released in November, 2015 by Clockwise Press.Ī young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama.
Missing Nimama, Melanie’s first picture book, deals with the vital and timely issue of missing indigenous women. Her new non-fiction book, Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools is forthcoming from Lorimer/Formac on December 15, 2015. Melanie’s first young adult novel, One Night, part of Lorimer’s Sidestreets series, was published in September of 2015. Her first book, Jordin Tootoo: The Highs and Lows of the First Inuit to Play in the NHL was chosen as an Honor Book by the American Indian Library Association.
She is a recent winner of the Second Story Press Aboriginal Writing Contest for her upcoming picture book Stolen Words (coming from Second Story Press in Spring 2016). Today, I’m very pleased to welcome author Melanie Florence to the blog! I’m especially interested in learning from her, because although Melanie is still in some ways a “new” writer, her body of work is already very diverse, including YA novels, picture books and non-fiction.Īs she notes on her website, Melanie Florence is a Canadian author of Cree and Scottish heritage.
Welcome to the latest installment of Breaking In, where I interview authors about their experiences breaking in as writers - how they did it, what it felt like to get there, and how it differed from what they were expecting.
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