Joseph Boyden Awards Banquet Speaker
Walk to Morning: Stories From a Writer's Life
Joseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. A Canadian with Irish, Scottish and Métis roots, Joseph writes about First Nations heritage and culture. An international bestseller that has been translated into 15 languages, his first novel, Three Day Road, has won a multitude of awards including the Rogers Writers. Trust Fiction Prize, the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award. Three Day Road was also shortlisted for the Governor General Award for Fiction. Boyden's second novel, Through Black Spruce, was the 2008 winner of Canada's most prestigious literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is the author of Born with a Tooth, a collection of stories that was shortlisted for the Upper Canada Writer's Craft Award. Boyden is a contributing writer for Canada's Maclean's and Zoomer magazines and has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of places, including Walrus, Driven, and Globe and Mail. His work has also appeared in publications such as Potpourri, Cimarron Review, Blue Penny Quarterly, Black Warrior, and The Panhandler. He divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana, where he teaches writing at the University of New Orleans.

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