Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline is Ojibway and Métis. She started her working life as a magician's assistant, astounding audiences with feats of levitation and her disappearing act. She worked as a museum curator and at a friendship centre where she was practically paid to play basketball and eat fry bread. All these jobs prepared Cherie to run an urban Native women's centre.

Cherie’s writing has appeared in a large women's magazine (Chatelaine), Rogers Media, the Toronto Star and Today's Parent. She worked as a newspaper editor as well. Red Rooms is her first book with Theytus. She lives in Toronto with her children and fiancé.