Kaitlyn Purcell
Kaitlyn Purcell is an artist, poet, storyteller, and scholar who works in multimodal creative productions that include visual, digital, and installation arts. She is Denesuline-Irish and a member of Smith’s Landing First Nation (Treaty 8 territory). She is an SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Calgary, where she studies Indigenous literatures, creative writing, and community-based learning. ʔbédayine, published in 2019 by Metatron Press, is her first book. Its stories are partly inspired by Purcell’s own experiences as a young woman in Edmonton, during a time as an adolescent when she was detached from her Dene roots. For her poetic novella ʔbédayine, Purcell was nominated for a 2020 Indigenous Voices Award and was selected, by guest judges CAConrad and Anne Boyer, for the 2018 Metatron Prize for Rising Authors. Her writing can be found in venues such as Artspeak, Esker Foundation, and YYZ Artists’ Outlet.
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