Her Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola: A Manual of Etiquette for Ladies Crossing Canada by Train (Polestar, 1986) is about a woman on the lam, crossing Canada by train. After seven years among the northern Cree and Ojibway peoples who call themselves Anishinabe, she wrote a reflective memoir North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps (Doubleday 1995).Īfter her first poetry collection, Waterloo Express (1973), Jiles' second poetry collection, Celestial Navigation (1983), won all three major Canadian poetry prizes in 1984, including the Governor-General's award.
In 1974 she was sent by CBC to work in a remote north Ontario community called Big Trout Lake, knowing precious little about the north. in Spanish literature at the University of Missourri. Born in Salem, Missouri in 1943, Paulette Jiles has lived in the Canary Islands, North Africa, the Arctic and Nelson.
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