Tenille Campbell


Tenille K. Campbell is a Dene and Métis poet and a photographer from English River First Nation. Her artistic works often focus on Indigenous people in Canada. She is the photographer behind Sweetmoon Photography, where she specializes in capturing photographs of Indigenous people. Her photography has appeared in Radio Canada International,. University of Saskatchewan News, and Eagle Feather News. Additionally, a photograph from her series entitled Urban Indigenous Woman was selected as the cover image for the second edition of A Recognition of Being by Kim Anderson. Her portrait photography portfolio includes work with Chelsea Rooney and Roseanne Supernault.
She is also the co-creator of tea&bannock, a blog which was "born out of a desire for a sense of community with other Indigenous women photographers – a place that feels like you are sitting around a table, enjoying tea and bannock."

Selected Works

Poetry
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia; where she studied with Richard Van Camp. Her MFA dissertation was titled Nuniyé Tehlgh-th : land of the wolf, and was a "young adult novel tells the story of Kelly Estatheneh, a young Dene woman living at the English River First Nation reserve in Northern Saskatchewan." As of November 2017, she is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her PhD research is focused on Indigenous Literature.

Awards

In 2017, she was named one of CBC Saskatchewan's "Future 40"