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.
""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