CMD Welcomes Francine Cunningham

Francine Cunningham

Francine Cunningham is an award-winning Indigenous writer, artist and educator. Her fiction and poetry have also appeared in The Best Canadian Short Stories, in Grain Magazine as the 2018 Short Prose Award winner, on The Malahat Review’s Far Horizon’s Prose shortlist, and the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize longlist among others.

We are thrilled to welcome Francine Cunningham to CookeMcDermid!

Francine Cunningham is an award-winning Indigenous writer, artist and educator. She currently spends her summer days writing on the prairies and her winter months teaching in the north.

Her debut book of poems ON/ME (Caitlin Press) was nominated for The BC and Yukon Book Prize, The Indigenous Voices Award, and The Vancouver Book Award. Her debut book of short stories, a speculative fiction and horror collection entitled GOD ISN'T HERE TODAY (Invisible Publishing), is longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Her first children’s book, WHAT IF BEDTIME DIDN'T EXIST? (Annick Press), will be out in 2024. Her fiction and poetry have also appeared in The Best Canadian Short Stories, in Grain Magazine as the 2018 Short Prose Award winner, on The Malahat Review’s Far Horizon’s Prose shortlist, and the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize longlist among others.

You can find out more about her at www.francinecunningham.ca

Francine is represented by Rachel Letofsky.