Mackenzie Ground is a writer and nehiyawiskwew from Enoch maskekosihk Cree Nation and amiskwacîwâskahikanihk Edmonton, Alberta in Treaty Six territory.

She is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University in the Department of English. She attended the University of Alberta for her MA and BA. Her writing has appeared most recently in The Capilano Review, The Denver Quarterly, and C Magazine. She is a member of the Writing Revolution in Place research collective, and she is an alumni of the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity’s 2023 Winter Writers Retreat and the 2021 Write Over Here — Open Rezidency.

She is a language learner of nehiyawewin (the Plains Cree language) which informs and guides her writing and thinking along with her walks and outdoor running. Her work considers the relationships of identity and place, to the land and to cities, and to the more-than-human beings who live on there. She often works with writing, story, images, inks and drawing, and collage.

CV available upon request.