Katłįà Lafferty

In this conversation, Katłįà talks about her writing process, what it's like to move between fiction and non-fiction, and how writing can be an avenue for activism.


Katłįà is is a Dene woman from the Northwest Territories. Previously serving as a councilor for her First Nation, Yellowknives Dene, she is an activist, poet and columnist and law student in Indigenous Legal Orders. Katłįà writes about Indigenous injustices with a focus on the North. Katłįà’s first novel, Land-Water-Sky, won the NorthWoods Book Awards (2021).


Music is by General Khan.


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