Waubgeshig Rice

Waubgeshig Rice grew up on the Wasauksing First Nation reserve near Parry Sound, Ontario. He began his writing career as a journalist for the First Nations newspaper Anishinabek News, in which he documented his experiences as a foreign exchange student in Germany. He attended Ryerson University, graduating in 2002. After college, Rice hosted the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s local radio show Up North, which was centered around indigenous storytelling. In 2012, Rice published a short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, based on his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community. Rice’s 2014 debut novel, Legacy, focused on cultural tensions between First Nations people and non-indigenous Canadian people; it revolves around the murder of a young First Nations woman. Moon of the Crusted Snow is Rice’s second novel, published in 2018. Rice, his wife Sarah, and their children Jiikwis and Ayaabehns split their time between Sudbury, Ottawa and Wasauksing.