Treena Chambers

Treena Chambers is a Métis scholar who has worked as a union organizer, writer, bookseller, and researcher. She has worked on the categorization and digitization of archival materials on projects such as The People and The Text, with the Indigenous Voices Awards and the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. She completed her BA in International Studies at SFU  and who brings her experience as a mature student and her Métis background into her studies of nationhood and identity. Treena’s past experience includes co-curating and organizing the Robson Reading Series. In 2018 Treena’s work “Hair Raizing”, was shortlisted for Unpublished Prose Piece for the Indigenous Voices Awards and then again in 2020 for her work “Forest Fires and Falling Stars”. Works by Treena Chambers include: The Peak, titled “SFU Mural is an UnWarranted Reminder of Canada’s Colonial Past” (2018), Hair Razing “Alaska Quarterly Review.” Poets & Writers, vol. 36, no. 3, Poets & Writers, Inc, (2020).