Joanne Arnott

Joanne Arnott (1960- ) is a Canadian writer, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently living on the west coast (British Columbia) with her family. Her works are intimate with an activist slant, exploring the issues faced by a mixed-race girl and woman in poverty, the family, danger, love and childbirth. She writes about these topics from personal experience, as a Metis and a mother of six. Arnott has also conducted workshops for writers, in Canada and Australia.

Arnott's works include:

• Wiles of Girlhood (1991, Press Gang), a book of poetry that received the Gerald Lampert Award;
• My Grass Cradle (1992, Press Gang), another book of poetry;
• Ma MacDonald (1993, Women's Press), a children's illustrated book, with artist Maryanne Barkhouse;
• (1995, Press Gang);
• (2004, Kegedonce Press)