Wanda

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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
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New · 2025

Miya Wears Orange

HighWater Press · Illustrated by Erika Rodriguez Medina

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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YA & Fiction

Young Adult Novel
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Winner · Egoff Prize 2024 USBBY List 2024

Hopeless in Hope

HighWater Press · 2023

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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Graphic Novels

The Dreams Series
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Shortlisted · Schwartz Award 2024

Visions of the Crow

Dreams, Book One · HighWater Press, 2023 · Illustrated by nicole marie burton & Kielamel Sibal

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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Poetry

Talonbooks
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Nominated · Raymond Souster Award

Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead

mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân · 2023

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

Talonbooks · 2018

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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Winner · Empowered Poet Award

In the Dog House

Talonbooks · 2013 · Debut Collection

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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