Tara Gereaux

Tara’s debut novel, Saltus (Nightwood Editions), was shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Novel Award and three Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her first book, Size of a Fist (Thistledown Press), a teen novella, was also shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards.

Tara received her MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. While studying, she was the recipient of the CBC Jim Burt Screenwriting Award and the William Rea Screenwriting Fellowship. After graduation, she became a writer and story editor in film and television. An episode she co-wrote for CBC’s Edgemont was nominated for a Leo Award.

Her writing has been published in several Canadian literary magazines, and won Event Magazine’s Creative Non-fiction Competition, and the City of Regina Writing Award in 2016 and 2019. She is the recipient of the 2022 Colleen Bailey Memorial Award from the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts, and a REVEAL Indigenous Art Award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Tara has an MA in Professional Communications from Royal Roads University, and was the recipient of the Gabriel Dumont and Napoleon LaFontaine Graduate Scholarships from the Gabriel Dumont Institute. Her thesis, which explores her Métis heritage and identity, won the Public Ethnography Award from the Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. An article based on her thesis was published in Briarpatch magazine.

From the Qu’Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan, Tara spent her childhood years in Fort Qu’Appelle, her teen years in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and much of her adult life in Vancouver, B.C., before returning to her home on the prairie. A descendent of the Red River Métis and a citizen of Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, she currently lives in Regina on Treaty 4 territory and homeland of the Métis.