Jamesie Fournier enjoys exploring his culture through writing. His work has appeared in Inuit Art Quarterly, The Literary Review of Canada, Red Rising magazine, Northern Public Affairs, Kaakuluk magazine, and the anthologies Coming Home: Stories from the Northwest Territories & Ndè Sı ̀ ı ̀ Wet’aɂà: Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life & Art. His debut fiction, The Other Ones, was published in 2022 with Inhabit Media and won silver in the Independent Publisher’s Awards. His debut poetry collection, Elements, was published in 2023 also with Inhabit. A recurrent speaker at the Northwords Writers Festival, Jamesie was also runner-up for Up Here’s 2018 Sally Manning Award for Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction. He is part of the 2023 Audible Indigenous Writer’s Circle and the 2023 NBC Universal Indigenous Screenwriting Accelerator Program. Born and raised in Nunatsiaq — the Northwest Territories — Jamesie has lived the past year in Iqaluit, NU learning his culture’s language, Inuktitut.