Beth Cuthand was born a member of the Little Pine First Nation in Saskatchewan and has lived in the four western provinces of Canada. She is the author of Voices in the Waterfall, a collection of poetry and prose published by Theytus Press in 2008. She is also an editor of Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America and co-author of The Little Duck: Sikihpsis, a Cree/English children's book published in 2007.

Career and publications

Cuthand worked as a journalist for 16 years before moving into education. She has taught at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (now First Nations University) from 1986 to 1992.^[1] She has also taught at En'Owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia, and the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Merrit, BC.^[2] She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. She was a writer-in-residence at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1993.

Cuthand's books of poetry include Horse Dance to Emerald Mountain (1987) and Voices in the Waterfall (1989, revised 2008).^[1]

She has written for anthologies and magazines, including An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, 2nd ed: Native Poetry in Canada.

Cuthand has also published a children's book, Little Duck: Sikihpsis, with Stan Cuthand and illustrated by Mary Longman. The book is a bilingual Cree-English work about a duck wanting to be a Plains Cree Dancer.^[3]

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