Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved, a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also developed and hosted This Place, a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold.Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town, won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky, is her mother's Residential School survivor story.A Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of Winnipeg.

Longlisted for the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry"The O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation poet uses the Haudenosaunee creation story as a jumping off point to share hard truths and jokes about an Indigenous woman’s upbringing in today’s world." – Janell Henry, Herizons Magazine

Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved, a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also developed and hosted This Place, a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold.Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town, won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky, is her mother's Residential School survivor story.A Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of Winnipeg.

Longlisted for the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry"The O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation poet uses the Haudenosaunee creation story as a jumping off point to share hard truths and jokes about an Indigenous woman’s upbringing in today’s world." – Janell Henry, Herizons Magazine

Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved, a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also developed and hosted This Place, a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold.Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town, won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky, is her mother's Residential School survivor story.A Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of Winnipeg.

Longlisted for the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry"The O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation poet uses the Haudenosaunee creation story as a jumping off point to share hard truths and jokes about an Indigenous woman’s upbringing in today’s world." – Janell Henry, Herizons Magazine