Tomson Highway

Tomson Highway is a Cree author, playwright, and musician. He is one of the most prominent and influential Indigenous writers in Canada. His memoir, Permanent Astonishment, won the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He also wrote the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, and the bestselling novel Kiss of the Fur Queen. He was recognized with the Order of Canada in 1994 and received an Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement at the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards in 2022.