Indian Medicine

DENNIS ALLEN is a writer, filmmaker, and songwriter with two albums of original music, Wayward Son and Sonny Crow. He was longlisted twice for the CBC Short Story Prize, a finalist in the 2019 Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, winner of the 2023 Edmonton Story Slam, and winner of the 2017 Sally Manning Award for Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction. As a filmmaker, Allen won the 2009 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival's Documentary Feature Award in honour of Alanis Obomsawin for CBQM, Best Canadian Documentary at the 2014 Available Light Film Festival for Crazywater, and Honorable Mention 2007 at Columbus International Film & Video Festival for My Father, My Teacher. From a long line of ancient Inuvialuit and Gwich'in storytellers, Allen lives in Inuvik, Northwest Territories.