Angeline Boulley

Angeline Boulley is an American author of young-adult fiction, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and former director of the Office of Indian Education at the US Department of Education. Her bestselling debut Firekeeper's Daughter — an Indigenous crime thriller — won the American Indian Youth Literature Award and was an instant publisher-sensation.

Boulley's novel, set on a reservation on Lake Superior, weaves Ojibwe language, ceremony and community around a mystery about meth and murder; it was the rare YA book to gain both critical and popular crossover success, and it is being developed for television. She writes with the authority of tribal insider and the craft of a trained storyteller.