"Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash is the author of ten books, including All of Babas Children and The Doomed Bridegroom: A Memoir. In addition to contributing articles to magazines such as Geist, Canadian Geographic, and Literary Review of Canada, Kostash has written radio documentaries and theatre playscripts. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous Canadian and international anthologies, such as The Thinking Heart: Best Canadian Essays, Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Nonfiction, Desire: Women Write About Wanting, Literatura na S'wiecie (Warsaw), and Mostovi (Belgrade). A founder of the Creative Nonfiction Collective, Kostash has also served as president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta and as chair of the Writers' Union of Canada. In 2008 the Writers Guild of Alberta presented her with the Golden Pen Award for lifetime achievement, and in 2009 she was inducted into the City of Edmontons Arts and Culture Hall of Fame. In 2010 she received the Writers Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award for A Writing Life. Her latest book, Prodigal Daughter: A Journey into Byzantium, was released in 2010 by the University of Alberta Press. She is at work on a public family history about her grandparents."
Praise for The Seven Oaks Reader
"Myrna Kostash provides a robust history of the Battle of Seven
Oaks from a diverse range of perspectives, relying on primary and
secondary sources, as well as original interviews with contemporary
scholars. The Seven Oaks Reader includes all of the most relevant
details about the events, accounts, and controversies that stem
from Seven Oaks, and is accessible to scholars, students, and the
public in general."
Adam Gaudry, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Indigenous Studies,
University of Saskatchewan
"In 1816 the Metis poet Pierre Falcon memorialized the Battle of
Seven Oaks in a provocative Michif ballad. Two hundred years later
Myrna Kostash offers us this beautifully detailed reader of facts
and varied, often contradictory, opinions about the tragic
event."
Rudy Wiebe, author of Where The Truth Lies
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