COOPER SKJEIE is a writer and Métis Education Consultant with Saskatoon Public Schools. He is of German-Norwegian and Métis ancestry and is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation—Saskatchewan. Skjeie earned a Bachelor of Education with Distinction from the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where he wrote a novel under the supervision of Billy-Ray Belcourt. His fiction was recognized for a 2026 Indigenous Voices Award, and his poetry won the 2023 Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award, a 2023 Indigenous Voices Award, and a 2024 National Magazine Award. He lives north of Saskatoon.
