Three poems in honour of the Robarts Centre

Author Biography

• Jesse Thistle, Department of Humanities, York Unviersity

  Jesse Thistle is a Métis-Cree author and assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at York University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir, From the Ashes (Simon & Schuster, 2019). Thistle is also a PhD candidate in the history program at York, where he is working on theories of intergenerational, historical trauma, and survivance of road allowance Métis people. He won York University’s Odessa Prize for the Study of Canada in 2015 for his essay, “ ‘We Are Children of the River’: Toronto’s Lost Métis History.”