Born on the Sweetgrass Reserve in Saskatchewan and raised in East Vancouver, Eden Fine Day is an author, musician, visual artist and proud nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman). She is passionate about her culture and how it places her in relationship with all other living beings, including the earth, the animal people and the plant people.

The world is changing now and Canadians are starting to realize that the very culture they tried to beat out of us is the one thing that will help us survive this global crisis. I’m ready to share what I know with the people of Vancouver, and the rest of Canada, so that we may move forward together.

Eden is driven by her optimism from educating kids about Indigenous realities in a kind and empowering way. She has written about Indigenous issues for the CBCkids website and her novella Dreamwalker is about a 12-year-old girl dealing with the legacy of residential school trauma.

This is the first generation of Canadian kids to be taught about residential schools and I think it's going to create monumental change that leads to greater understanding and healing. I'm hopeful about settler-Indigenous relations improving significantly and it's because of these kids.

Eden expresses herself through song, fiction, creative nonfiction and painting. Her musical career spans more than 25 years as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. She has recorded six albums, including three with the Vancouver-based rock band Vancougar. She studied in the U.S. and France and earned her BA in language studies from University of California, Santa Cruz.