Rosanna Deerchild

Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved , a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also developed and hosted This Place , a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold . Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town , won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky , is her mother...See more

Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved , a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also developed and hosted This Place , a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold . Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town , won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky , is her mother's Residential School survivor story. A Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of Winnipeg. See less