Duncan Mercredi is a Cree, born in Misipawistik (Grand Rapids), Manitoba. He is a poet and storyteller who also writes plays. He has a great love for the blues and hosts a weekly blues radio show on public broadcasting station NCI FM (Native Communications, Inc.) in Manitoba. He has also worked in bush camps in construction for Manitoba Hydro and land surveys for the Department of Manitoba Highways. Duncan is currently a member of the Manitoba Aboriginal Writers Collective, and lives with his wife and children in Winnipeg.

Here are links to a few places where you can read or hear his work online:

• His contributions to the book Native Poetry in Canada, A Contemporary Anthology (ed. Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Broadview Press, 2001) are readable online at Google Books.
• Two short poems are among the selected online excerpts from Contemporary Verse 2, the Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing.
• His poem “black panther” is at the Manitoba Blues Society Web site.

To purchase his books, visit Pemmican Publications:

• Spirit of the Wolf: Raise Your Voice (poems, 1991)
  
• Wolf and Shadows (poems, 1995)
  
• The Duke of Windsor: Wolf Sings the Blues (poems, 1997)

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