Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree, Métis, and Salish memoirist, journalist, essayist, poet, model, screenwriter, and public speaker from amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton). She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University - where she was the first Indigenous graduate - and later taught as an adjunct professor. After living in New York City, she returned to Canada and now lives in Toronto, working as Storyteller and Content Writer for Indspire. Her debut memoir, Soft as Bones (House of Anansi, May 2025), became an instant national bestseller. She is the founder of the Soft as Bones Storytelling Foundation, alongside her sister Chayla Delaney Rain, dedicated to healing through the arts.

In this episode, we discuss:

• definining moments that shaped her life path
• how cultural healing helps break generational cycles
• the medicine her debut memoir, Soft as Bones, offers her readers
• turning rock bottoms into rebirths

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