A Bow Forged from Ash

Melissa Powless Day is Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá ka from Bkejwanong Territory (Walpole Island First Nation), with family ties in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Her poetry has appeared in the Temz Review, TNQ, the Windsor Review, Luna Station Quarterly and Yellow Medicine Review, and her first chapbook, Secondhand Moccasins, was published in 2023 by Anstruther Press and shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Melissa is also a scholar and educator who is currently pursuing a PhD in Indigenous Education at Western University. She serves as the chair for Western’s Indigenous Writers’ Circle and as a Visiting Cultural Teacher for the London District Catholic School Board.