COOPER SKJEIE is a writer and educational consultant of German-Norwegian and Métis ancestry. He 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, an excerpt of which was recognized for a 2026 Indigenous Voices Award for Fiction. His poetry has won the 2023 Writers' Trust Bronwen Wallace Award, a 2023 Indigenous Voices Award, and a 2024 National Magazine Award. Skjeie was born and raised in Saskatoon and is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan.