Melanie Florence is a Canadian author of Cree and Scottish heritage who lives in Toronto. She writes fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults about historical and contemporary issues affecting Indigenous people, many informed by her grandfather's experience at one of Canada's residential schools. In 2016 she won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for the picture book Missing Nimâmâ, the story of a young Indigenous mother watching from afar as her daughter grows up. Her other books include the non-fiction title Stolen Words.
