Joseph Boyden
Louis Riel and Gabriel DumontJoseph Boyden is a Canadian with Irish, Scottish, and Métis roots. He is the award-winning author of Three Day Road, which won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, and Through Black Spruce, which won the Giller Prize. He divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana, where he teaches writing at the University of New Orleans.