Christy Jordan-Fenton is the author of four award-winning books about her Inuvialuk mother (in-law) Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton and her time attending an Indian Residential School in the high Arctic during the 1940s: FATTY LEGS, A STRANGER AT HOME, WHEN I WAS EIGHT, and NOT MY GIRL. Christy and Margaret travelled internationally sharing her story for over a decade, until Margaret’s passing in 2021 at the age of 84. Some of their greatest adventures together include being a part of five Truth and Reconciliation national events, visiting Cuba and Alaska, and getting tattoos (when Margaret was 81).

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Christy has been publishing poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction in literary magazines and anthologies since she was 17. She is currently working on revisions to a new picture book, and a novel, and is in the process of writing many other works.

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Christy lives with her three children in Fort St John, BC, the territory of the Dane-zaa. She has been an infantry soldier, a bronc rider, a rugby player, and a wild pig farmer among other things, and has lived in the United States, Australia, and South Africa. She was raised for part of her life by a Cree residential school survivor, and practices traditional Lakota ceremony with the Kainai Blackfoot.

 

Christy’s work has appeared in: Water~Stone Review, Quills, Prairie Fire, Jones Ave, Tusaayaksat, and on the Best of American Poetry Blog.