About

Tracey Lindberg hails from the As’in’î’wa’chî Ni’yaw (Kelly Lake Cree Nation) and grew up in small cities and towns in Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. She studied law at the University of Saskatchewan, Harvard Law School (LLM) and the University of Ottawa (PhD).  She has co-authored books on law [Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (Oxford, 2010) ] with authors Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Robert Miller and a book on Indigenous literature icon Daniel David Moses (Guernica, 2015) with David Brundage.

Her best-selling novel Birdie is widely read and used to teach courses worldwide. Birdie was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award and the 2016 edition of CBC's Canada Reads and is currently in its fourteenth reprint.  The novel was also long-listed for the 2017 Dublin International Literary Prize, the OLA Evergreen Award and was a nominee for the 2016 Alberta Literary Awards.  Dr. Lindberg was a juror for the 2017 Rogers Trust Fiction prize. Her most recent novel, The Cree Word for Love: Sakihitowin (2025) is writing about embodied self-determination.