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Michelle Cyca
Michelle Cyca is a freelance journalist and editor from Vancouver, Canada. She is the editor of Indigenous-led conservation coverage for The Narwhal, a contributing writer to The Walrus and contributing editor to Maclean’s. Her essays and journalism can be also found in The Guardian, Chatelaine, The Globe & Mail, The Tyee, and many other places. Her literary criticism regularly appears in Quill & Quire and the Vancouver Sun. Previously, she was the co-publisher and editor-in-chief of SAD Mag, a National Magazine Award-winning magazine celebrating Vancouver arts and culture. Her interests are diverse, but she writes most often about Indigenous issues, reproductive rights, parenting, climate justice, contemporary literature, and rollerskating.
Michelle is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6, and she lives and works in Vancouver on the ancestral, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ peoples. Recent work can be found on Twitter and her website.
2023 National Magazine Awards, Investigative Reporting: “The Curious Case of Gina Adams,” Maclean’s (Gold)
