Neal Mcleod is a witer, visual artist, film-maker and academic. McLeod holds a PhD in Indigeonous Studies and currently teaches at Trent University in Ontario. He studied art in Sweden and has exhibited his unique and powerful paintings in galleries through out Canada. His low-budget film, A Man Called Horst, was screened in Berlin and has become an underground classic. His first book of poetry Songs to Kill a Wihtikow was nominated for several awards including the Saskatchewan Book of the Year and The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year. It was the winner of the National Aborigial Poetry Award in 2006. He is also the author of the non-fiction work, Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times (2007, Purich Publishing).
