Waubgeshig Rice | |
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| Born | Wasauksing First Nation |
| Occupation | writer, journalist |
| Education | Ryerson University |
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Waubgeshig Isaac Rice is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ontario, in Canada. [1] Rice has been recognized for his work throughout Canada, including an appearance at Wordfest's 2018 Indigenous Voices Showcase in Calgary. [2]
Waubgeshig Rice began his journalism career when he spent a year in Germany on a student exchange program, and wrote a series of articles about his experience for the First Nations newspaper Anishinabek News. [3] He graduated from Ryerson University in 2002, and began working as a freelance journalist for media outlets such as The Weather Network and Wasauksing's community radio station CHRZ-FM [4] before joining the CBC's local news bureau in Winnipeg in 2006 and transferring to Ottawa in 2010. [3]
With the CBC, he was a contributor to the radio and television documentary series ReVision Quest and 8th Fire . [5] In 2014, he received the Debwewin Citation for Excellence in First Nations Storytelling from the Union of Ontario Indians. [6] He became the new host of Up North, CBC Radio One's local afternoon show on CBC Sudbury, in 2018, [5] and has been heard on the national CBC Radio network as a guest host of Unreserved . He left the CBC in 2020 to concentrate on writing. [7]
Rice published the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge in 2011, [8] as well as the novel Legacy in 2014, with Theytus Books, Ltd. [1] His second novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow , was published in October 2018 by ECW Press, [9] and the audiobook was narrated by actor Billy Merasty and released in December 2018.
The New York Times named Rice, alongside Cherie Dimaline, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger and Stephen Graham Jones, as "some of the Indigenous novelists reshaping North American science fiction, horror and fantasy." [10]
In 2021 Rice launched the Storykeepers podcast with author Jennifer David, with assistance from an Ontario Arts Council grant. [11] In the podcast Rice and David will be discussing Indigenous literatures, "to bring conversations about Indigenous books to a wider audience in an audio book-club format." [12]
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