Gregory Scofield

Gregory A. Scofield (born July 20, 1966 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, whose work draws on Cree literary traditions.

Life
A Métis of Cree, European and Jewish descent, Scofield was born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. He has since published 6 volumes of poetry and a non-fiction memoir. He has also served as writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Winnipeg.

In addition to his writing Scofield has been a social worker dealing with street youth in Vancouver, and has taught First Nations and Métis Literature at Brandon University and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design,

Openly gay, Scofield identified as Two-Spirited early in his career, later choosing to identify as gay due to his lack of training in Cree spiritual tradition.

Recognition
Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel.

He was the subject of a documentary film, Singing Home the Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself, in 2007.

Publications

 * The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel (1993)
 * Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez (1996)
 * Love Medicine and One Song (1997)
 * I Knew Two Métis Women (1999)
 * Thunder Through My Veins (1999)
 * Singing Home the Bones (2005)
 * kipocihkân: Poems New & Selected (2009)