Joseph Boyden is a Canadian with Irish, Scottish and Metis roots. His first novel, Three Day Road, has been published in ten languages. It was selected for The Today Show book club, won the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction prize, the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year, the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the 2005 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana, where he teaches writing at the University of New Orleans.

Festivals: 2008 (fall)