Conor Kerr

Conor Kerr is a national award losing Métis/Ukrainian writer and bird hunter living in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), born in Saskatoon, and raised in Buffalo Pound Lake and Drayton Valley. He is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Conor is the author of the novels Avenue of Champions(opens in new tab), which won the 2022 RELIT Award, was shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon/Walrus Debut Novel Award, and was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize, and Prairie Edge,(opens in new tab) which was shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize and the 2024 Writer’s Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Award and won the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novel award.

He has also published the poetry collections An Explosion of Feathers(opens in new tab), and Old Gods(opens in new tab), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and named one of CBC’s Best Books of 2023. His latest book is the poetic novella, Beaver Hills Forever(opens in new tab). He has a forthcoming novel, Duck Blind, coming out in 2027.