Melanie Florence is a Canadian author of Cree and Scottish heritage. She is a recent winner of the Second Story Press Aboriginal Writing Contest for her upcoming picture book Stolen Words (Second Story Press) and her first book, Jordin Tootoo: The Highs and Lows of the First Inuit to Play in the NHL was chosen as an Honor Book by the American Indian Library Association. Melanies fiction writing includes the teen novel One Night in Lorimers Sidestreets series and the picture book Missing Nimama (Clockwise Press). She is also the author of Righting Canadas Wrongs: Residential Schools.