Poetry, fiction, and stories for every reader
From award-winning poetry to a picture book for young children, Wanda's work moves across form while returning to the same questions: how we carry history, and how we heal from it.
Children's
Picture Book
Miya Wears Orange
Miya loves storytime — until her teacher tells the story of a little girl taken from her family to a residential school, just for being Indigenous, just like her. A gentle, honest picture book about a child's fear and her mother's reassurance, built for the conversations families are still having today.
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Young Adult Novel
Hopeless in Hope
Fourteen-year-old Eva relies on her nohkum to hold her family together. When her mother makes a terrible mistake, Eva and her little brother are separated into different homes — and Eva has to find her way back to hope, and to each other.
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The Dreams Series
Visions of the Crow
Damon Quinn just wants to survive senior year — but a mysterious crow won't leave him alone, and a waking vision forces him to ask the questions he's avoided about his mother, his absent father, and where he really comes from. First in a planned trilogy.
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Talonbooks
Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead
A bilingual Cree and English collection working through grief — playing with form, space, and the space between languages to find what gets lost, and found, in translation.
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Seven Sacred Truths
An exploration of an Indigenous woman's healing journey through Love, Wisdom, Truth, Honesty, Respect, Humility, and Courage — prose poetry, testimony, and prayer woven together as a method for moving forward.
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In the Dog House
Wanda's idiom-shattering debut, blending First Nations oral tradition with dramatic narrative to speak plainly about addiction, abandonment, and the pain of mourning — without ever asking to be spared.
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