“I wanted to be at the apex of my story…For a long time, it felt as though things were happening to me. I felt as though I had no agency.”

— Terese Marie Mailhot

On what led her to write Heart Berries in “Why 'Heart Berries' Author Terese Marie Mailhot Doesn't Use The Word ‘Resilient’" https://www.bustle.com/p/why-heart-berries-author-terese-marie-mailhot-doesnt-use-the-word-resilient-8134108 in Bustle Magazine (2018 Feb 7)

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First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, teacher 1983

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