Louise Bradford - Author

Louise Bradford loves spending time in the woods, especially on snowshoes! A member of Batchewana First Nation, she is the author of two children’s picture books, Sage and the Snowshoe Express and Wade’s Wiggly Antlers, and her other stories have been produced by CBC Radio and CBC Television. As a speechwriter, she has written many speeches for the Government of Canada, usually about farming and the people who grow our food.|Louise is of Canadian and Anishinaabe descent. Her Anishinaabe name, Diindiisi Ikwe, means Blue Jay Woman: the blue jay’s call tells everyone something important is happening. She has two amazing sons who are all grown up, and she is a proud nanna.#Born and raised at Baawaating (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario), Louise now lives and writes in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.)