Tomson Highway

Tomson Highway (born December 6, 1951) is a Two-Spirit Cree playwright, novelist, children's author, musician and librettist from northern Manitoba, Canada. Raised speaking Cree and educated at residential school, he earned degrees in music and English from the University of Western Ontario before working in Indigenous social services and then emerging as one of Canada's most important contemporary playwrights and writers. His best-known plays include The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing; his novel Kiss of the Fur Queen and his memoir Permanent Astonishment have also received wide recognition. Highway writes in English and Cree and divides his time between residences in Canada and abroad.