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Tara Lee Morin | |
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Born | Manitoba |
Occupation | poet, memoirist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2010s-present |
Notable works | As I Remember It |
Tara Lee Morin is a Canadian writer, who was a finalist for the 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature for her book As I Remember It. [1]
Born in a remote First Nations community in northern Manitoba to a teenage mother, Morin was removed by social services authorities from her birth home and spent her childhood growing up in a series of foster homes. [2] As an adolescent she struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, and was involved in both criminal activity and prostitution. [2] As I Remember It, her first published book, is a memoir of both her struggles and her experience rebuilding her life in a more positive and healthy direction. [2] It was first published in 2011 by Theytus Books, a British Columbia-based publisher of First Nations literature. [2]
Morin has also written poetry. [3]
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Tara Lee Morin | |
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Born | Manitoba |
Occupation | poet, memoirist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2010s-present |
Notable works | As I Remember It |
Tara Lee Morin is a Canadian writer, who was a finalist for the 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature for her book As I Remember It. [1]
Born in a remote First Nations community in northern Manitoba to a teenage mother, Morin was removed by social services authorities from her birth home and spent her childhood growing up in a series of foster homes. [2] As an adolescent she struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, and was involved in both criminal activity and prostitution. [2] As I Remember It, her first published book, is a memoir of both her struggles and her experience rebuilding her life in a more positive and healthy direction. [2] It was first published in 2011 by Theytus Books, a British Columbia-based publisher of First Nations literature. [2]
Morin has also written poetry. [3]