Michelle Sylliboy
Three-time award-winning author and interdisciplinary artist Michelle Sylliboy (Mi’kmaq/L’nu) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised on her traditional L’nuk territory in We’koqmaq, Cape Breton. Her published collection of photographs and L’nuk hieroglyphic poetry Kiskajeyi—I Am Ready won the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award. In 2021, she received the Indigenous Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia. In 2022, she was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award. As a PhD candidate in Simon Fraser University’s Philosophy of Education program, she focused on the artistic promotion of her original written komqwej’wikasikl language.