Michelle Sylliboy is a two-spirit L’nu/Mi’kmaq artist and three time Award-winning author born in Boston, MA, USA, and raised on her traditional L’nuk territory in We’koqmaq, Cape Breton, NS. Her published collection of photographs and L’nuk hieroglyphic poetry, Kiskajeyi—I Am Ready won the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award. In 2021, she received the Indigenous Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia. In 2022, she was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award. As a PhD candidate in Simon Fraser University’s Philosophy of Education program, she focuses on the artistic promotion of her original written komqwej’wikasikl language. She is currently working on a new project bringing the arts to the seven districts.
Michelle Sylliboy
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