Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles-Johnson (born 4 Apr 1943) is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature. Jiles moved to Canada in 1969. She is married to Jim Johnson and has three stepchildren and six grandchildren. Currently she lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Selected bibliography

 * Waterloo Express (1973)
 * Celestial Navigation (1984,winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for English Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award)
 * The Golden Hawks (Where We Live) (1985)
 * Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola (1986, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
 * The Late Great Human Road Show (1986, nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award)
 * The Jesse James Poems (1988)
 * Blackwater (1988)
 * Song to the Rising Sun (1989)
 * Cousins (1992)
 * Flying Lesson: Selected Poems (1995)
 * North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps (1995)
 * Enemy Women (2002, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
 * Stormy Weather (2007)
 * The Color of Lightning (2009)