Shezza Ansloos is a Cree writer, educator, artist, and speaker whose work spans literature, music, and visual art. She is the author of three children’s books: I Loved Her, The Fire Walker, and Thunder and the Noise Storms, as well as a forthcoming poetry collection, The Indians Act.
In addition to her writing, Ansloos is an award-winning singer-songwriter and visual artist whose creative practice moves across multiple disciplines. Her work is rooted in storytelling and shaped by a deep commitment to expression, reflection, and connection.
She is nêhiyaw-iskwêw (Cree) and English, and a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation (Ochekwi-Sipi; Treaty 5). She is also a 60’s Scoop Survivor, an experience that informs her understanding of displacement, identity, and the impact of colonial policy in Canada on families and communities. She grew up in Southern Manitoba on Treaty 1 territory and now resides in White Rock, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation, part of the broader Coast Salish Peoples.
For Shezza, creativity is not separate from life—it is a way of speaking truth.
What People Say
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes…
Lord Byron
“A powerful voice in contemporary Indigenous storytelling, weaving poetry, children’s literature, music, and visual art into deeply reflective work on identity and memory.”
Shezza Ansloos 