About Kaitlyn Purcell

Kaitlyn Purcell is Denesuline-Irish and a member of Smith’s Landing First Nation (Treaty 8 territory). Kaitlyn is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary whose research is structured through the four directions of the medicine wheel, meditating on recovery, grief, and intergenerational survivance. It will be presented through multi-modal creative productions such as storytelling, poetry, visual, digital, and installation arts. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a doctoral SSHRC award and the Metatron Prize for her debut poetic novella ʔbédayine (Spirit).

dreamwaves an (affirmation) poem by Kaitlyn Purcell.