World Rights to Amber Boyd's BLOOD, BANNOCK, AND BEADS

Award-winning Métis writer, Amber Boyd’s memoir, BLOOD, BANNOCK, AND BEADS, recounts a 24-year vibrant journey of reclaiming her identity after discovering that her grandfather hid his; her path back to the Métis community includes bear encounters, traditional medicines, bead works, a birch bark canoe, and lessons with her two children, to Doretta Lau at Greystone Books, by Rachel Letofsky at CookeMcDermid Agency (World, All), for publication in Fall 2024.

Amber is a proud citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and is currently completing her MFA in creative writing at UBC. In 2019 and 2022, she won second place in the Kemosa contest, and in 2021 her writing was short-listed for the Constance Rooke CNF Prize and won her a spot to participate in the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle