Christine McFarlane is a Saulteaux woman from Peguis First Nation. She is an emerging writer and graduated from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Aboriginal Studies in June 2011. Her story “Choosing the Path to Healing” appeared in the 2006 anthology Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces, a creative non-fiction piece titled “As A Child” appeared in Yellow Medicine Review in 2008, a new piece titled “Mother: An Essay” in Yellow Medicine Review Spring 2011, a poem titled “I Remember” in xxx ndn, a book of poetry published by the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba, a short story “A Different World,” and poem “Standing on Barren Land,” on Native Literatures: Generations website. She has a regular column in the Native Canadian newsletter, titled Life’s Journey, freelances for Anishinabek News, New Tribe Magazine, First Nations House magazine that is based out of First Nations House of the University of Toronto and Windspeaker. She is also the Events editor for First Nations House’s radio- show Indigenous Waves.
Her blog can be found at http://chrissyredwindsmith.blogspot.ca