Gregory Scofield

Michael Minor (University of Manitoba)

Ed. by Renate Eigenbrod, University of Manitoba
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.5: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America - Canada.
Vol. editors: Joshua Bartlett (High Point University), Renate Eigenbrod (University of Manitoba), Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 20 Jul 1966
Activity 1993-ongoing

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Memoirist

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Gregory Scofield is currently the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, as well as his memoir,

Thunder Through My Veins

(1999). He was born in Maple Ridge, BC on July 20, 1966 of Métis, Jewish, Polish, and German ancestry. As an adult, he has been a social worker with the urban Aboriginal populations of Vancouver and currently works as a writer and activist. He has held positions as writer-in-residence at several universities: Memorial University of Newfoundland (2003-2004), University of Manitoba (fall 2007), and University of Winnipeg (2012-2013). However, these statistics seem trite when one considers how hard Scofield has worked to establish his identity as a gay Métis writer.

Like his art, Gregory Scofield’s identity is far from static. During his early life, he

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Citation: Minor, Michael. "Gregory Scofield". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 October 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5385, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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