Jenn Ashton
Jenn Ashton is an Award-winning Coast Salish author and visual artist. Her book of Short Stories, People Like Frank, and Other Stories from the Edge of Normal (TidewaterPress 2020) was shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award 2021, and she was shortlisted again for Hail Mary Mother of Pearl in 2022. Jenn is the Writer in Residence at the British Columbia History Magazine, an Authenticity Reader for Penguin/Random House USA and currently reads History at Oxford University. When she is not writing, painting,or teaching, she enjoys cedar and wool weaving, making regalia and being in her greenhouse.