Page as Bone - Ink as Blood - Kirton, Jónína
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A mixed-race woman reflects on a life of hardship, triumph-contemplating ways in which bloodlines shaped her response to different circumstances.

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A mixed-race woman reflects on a life of hardship, triumph-contemplating ways in which bloodlines shaped her response to different circumstances.
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Jónína Kirton is a Métis/Icelandic poet and author who lives and works in Vancouver. She graduated from Simon Fraser University¿s Writer¿s Studio in 2007 and attended the Emerging Aboriginal Writer¿s Residency at the Banff Centre in 2008. Actively involved with the Aboriginal Writers Collective ¿ West Coast, she coordinated the first National Indigenous Writers Conference in Vancouver 2013. In 2015 Kirton joined the editorial board of Room Magazine. Kirton¿s work has been featured in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including Ricepaper¿s Asian & Aboriginal issue, V6A: Writing from Vancouver¿s Downtown Eastside, Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out, Pagan Edge, First Nations Drum, Toronto Quarterly, and Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine. She won first prize and two honorable mentions in the 2013 Royal City Literary Arts Society¿s Write On! Contest and was a finalist in the 2013 Burnaby Writers¿ Society Writing Contest. page as bone ¿ ink as blood was published to wide critical acclaim in 2015. Her second book, An Honest Woman, was a Finalist for the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.