Armand Garnet Ruffo

Armand Ruffo was born and raised in Chapleau, northern Ontario and is a member of the Chapleau Fox Lake Cree First Nation. His publications include Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing Into Thunderbird (2014) and Treaty# (2019), both finalists for Governor General’s Literary Awards. Other projects include “Sounding Thunder: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow,” a musical based on the life of the renowned WWI sniper and political activist, and a collaborative video-poem, “On The Day The World Begins Again,” (https://vimeo.com/336947329) concerning the incarceration of Indigenous people. In 2020, he was awarded the Latner Writer’s Trust Poetry Prize in recognition of his body of work. Ruffo is a Professor in the Department of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, where he teaches Indigenous Literature and Creative Writing.