Jessie Loyer is a Cree-Métis writer and librarian.
She writes poetry, fiction, commentary, and theory. She’s a librarian at Mount Royal University. She has written for publications such as Canadian Art, the Montreal Review of Books, the Capilano Review, Room Magazine, and ndncountry. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry in Voice and anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry 2019. Jessie often writes about the small everyday moments of joy and grief that make up Indigenous life.
As an academic librarian, Jessie’s research looks at Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supporting language revitalization, and developing ongoing, reciprocal research relationships using nêhiyaw and Michif conceptions of kinship.