TANYA TALAGA is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. Her father is Polish Canadian. Tanya is a proud member of Fort William First Nation.

She is the acclaimed author ofthenational bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prizefor Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award; was a finalist forthe Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Non-Fiction; andwas CBC's Nonfiction Book of the Year and aGlobe and MailTop 100 Book.

Talaga was the 20172018Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer and is the author of the nationalbestsellerAll Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalistat the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail.

Talaga's third book, The Knowing, based on her family's experience in residentialschools, will be published in late summer, 2024.

Tanya Talaga is the founder ofMakwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories through documentary films and podcasts. In 2021, she founded the charity, the Spirit to Soar Fund, which is aimed at improving the lives of First Nations youth living in northern Ontario. Talaga has five honorary doctorates.