It Bears Repeating (FNCR 2025) Subarctic Finalist for the 2022 Hilary

Finalist for the 2022 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

and educator

within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez

Archival photographs and colour images of Irene and her father allow students to identify with the authentic story of Irene Couchie Dupuis

the collection is her first volume of stories that explore her life

It Bears Repeating (FNCR 2025) Subarctic Finalist for the 2022 HilaryTanya Tagaq is an Inuk throat singer from Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. She is an improvisational singer, avant garde composer and bestselling author. A member of the Order of Canada, Polaris Music Prize and Juno Award winner and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates, Tagaq is an original disruptor, a world changing figure at the forefront of seismic social, political and environmental