Cara-Lyn Morgan

Cara-Lyn Morgan comes from both Indigenous (Métis) and Immigrant (Trinidadian) roots in the place known as Turtle Island and Canada. She was born in Oskana, known now as Regina, Saskatchewan, and lives, works, and gardens, in the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and Mississaugas of the Credit peoples. Her debut collection of poetry, What Became My Grieving Ceremony, won the 2015 Fred Cogswell Award for Poetic Excellence. Her latest book is Building a Nest from the Bones of My People (Invisible Publishing). 

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Building a Nest from the Bones of My People
By Cara-Lyn Morgan
Published by Invisible Publishing

Motherhood, trauma, and familial history are woven together into a powerful collection from the award-winning author of What Became My Grieving Ceremony.

Beginning with a revelation of familial sexual abuse, Building a Nest from the Bones of My People charts the impact of this revelation on the speaker. From the pain of estrangement to navigating first-time motherhood in the midst of a family crisis, Morgan explores the complexities of generational and secondary abuse, intertwined as they are with the impacts of colonization. 

“A brilliant and resonant meditation on becoming a mother and what it takes to build a new nest from the salvage of what’s been given to us.” 
—Lisa Bird-Wilson, author of Probably Ruby