Lee Maracle

Lee Maracle was an Indigenous Canadian writer and academic of the Stó꞉lō nation, born in North Vancouver in 1950. Her first book, the autobiography Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel, appeared in 1975, and she went on to write fiction such as Ravensong and Celia's Song, along with essays in My Conversations with Canadians. Her work centres on the lives of Indigenous people, particularly women, in contemporary North America, and she died in 2021.