Norma Dunning (PhD) is a Padlei Inuk writer, professor and grandmother.
Dr. Dunning completed her doctoral degree in Indigenous Peoples Education at the University of Alberta in 2019. As a professor, Dr. Dunning has written an impressive amount of peer-reviewed content and has been a lead curriculum developer. She’s published in poetry, prose, fiction and nonfiction.
Kinauvit? (what’s your name?) a work of nonfiction shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen prize for political writing in 2023 and Tainna (the unseen ones) received the Governor General’s Award in literary fiction in 2021. Annie Muktuk and Other Stories (2017) received the Danuta Gleed in 2018, as well as several other literary awards. Her books have translated into French, Greek and Amharic. Aput! (snow), a children’s book is releasing in 2024.
Dunning lives in Regina where she teaches at the First Nations University of Canada.