Gregory Scofield

GREGORY SCOFIELD is Metis of Cree, Scottish and European-Immigrant descent whose ancestry can be traced to the Metis community of Kinosota, Manitoba. He has taught Creative Writing and First Nations and Metis Literature at Laurentan University, Brandon University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and the Alberta University of the Arts. He currently holds the position of Associate professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel, and has since published seven further volumes of poetry including, Witness, I am. He has served as writer-in-residence at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), and most recently the Writers' Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize (2016) that is awarded to a mid-career poet in recognition of a remarkable body of work. Further to writing and teaching, Scofield is also a skilled bead-worker, and he creates in the medium of traditional Metis arts. He continues to assemble a collection of mid to late 19th century Cree-Metis artifacts, which are used as learning and teaching pieces. Scofield's first memoir Thunder Through My Veins (Doubleday Canada/Anchor Books)was re-published Fall 2019.