Shantell Powell is a two-spirit artist, writer, forager, and swamp hag who grew up on the land and off the grid all over Canada. She is an alum of Roots Wounds Words, the Banff Centre for the Arts, The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University, the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, the University of New Brunswick, and the LET(s) Lead Academy at Yale University. She is currently studying novel-writing with GrubStreet. Her writing appears in Augur Magazine, Solarpunk Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, Arc Poetry, MetaStellar, The Deadlands, and more. She is the winner of the 2023 Dystopian Fiction Competition and first runner-up for the 2023 Native Voices Award. When she’s not writing or making things, she wrangles chinchillas or gets filthy in the woods.
