Her great-grandfather, Russell Bowen, was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer. Her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor. Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism. For more than twenty years she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a columnist at the newspaper. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward. TANYA TALAGA is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ: Young Adult/Adult Award a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller.
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