Suzanne Methot is the author of the non-fiction books Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing and Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing. She is also co-author of the Grade 11 textbook Aboriginal Beliefs, Values, and Aspirations, and a contributor to Scholastic’s Take Action series of elementary classroom resource books.Suzanne’s writing has been published in Open Book, Edutopia, All Lit Up, the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Windspeaker, Ontario Birchbark, and Canadian Geographic. She has worked as managing editor of Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly; editorial director of Fuse magazine; in-house copy editor/proofreader for NOW weekly; in-house copy editor/proofreader for Vancouver/Toronto/Ottawa Computes; editor of the Anishinabek News; and in-house editor/proofreader at Carswell (now Thomson Reuters) in the Business Reference Group. She was also principal editor for Ningwakwe Learning Press for many years, creating Indigenous culture-based literacy resources. She continues to work as an editor, content reviewer, and sensitivity reader for book publishers and post-secondary institutions, and also writes curriculum for the education, arts/culture, and museum sectors.Suzanne has 30 years of experience creating and applying equity and anti-oppression frameworks, beginning as an adult literacy practitioner (since 1991) and then as an elementary classroom teacher specializing in social justice education (since 2007). During this time, she worked at the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto, the Anishinabek Nation (Health and Environment Program), the YWCA Elm Centre (Winona’s Place), and West Neighbourhood House (The Meeting Place), serving community members marginalized by racism, poverty, homelessness, health status, addictions, mental-health challenges, crime, and victimization.Born in Vancouver in 1968, Suzanne was raised in Sagitawa/Peace River, Alberta. She is Asiniwachi Nehiyaw (Rocky Mountain Cree) of mixed Indigenous and European heritage. For more info, visit Suzanne's website at https://www.suzannemethot.ca/ or connect on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.