What Fills Your House Like Smoke (FNCR 2025) Heiltsuk 2023 White Pine Award™ Nominees

2023 White Pine Award™ Nominees Grades 9-12

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What Fills Your House Like Smoke (FNCR 2025) Heiltsuk 2023 White Pine Award™ NomineesE. McGregor is a Euro Settler Metis writer currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In these poems, E. McGregor combines the lore of family history with personal memory, vividly parsing patterns of inheritance, particularly through the maternal line. What Fills Your House Like Smoke begins and ends at the deathbed of the writer's Metis grandmother. In between, McGregor composes an incomplete and wildly imaginative biography of the grandmother,