Angeline Boulley

Angeline Boulley is a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and the author of the debut novel Firekeeper's Daughter (2021), which won the Michael L. Printz Award and the Schneider Family Book Award, and was a William C. Morris Award finalist. The novel is a mystery set on the Sugar Island Ojibwe Tribe reservation that follows a half-white, half-Ojibwe eighteen-year-old who agrees to go undercover to help federal agents investigate drug trafficking. Boulley spent years working in Indigenous education policy in Washington, D.C., before writing Firekeeper's Daughter, which draws deeply on her own experience as an enrolled tribal member. The novel became a phenomenon, praised for its authentic representation of contemporary Anishinaabe culture and its mastery of the thriller form. A sequel, Warrior Girl Unearthed, was published in 2023 and was also widely praised. Boulley lives in Michigan.