Tanya Lukin Linklater is an artist and arts educator based in northern Ontario. Her practice spans experimental choreography, performance, video, photography and installation. Her work has been performed/exhibited across Canada and internationally (Argentina, Chile, Brasil, and the United States). She integrates text into her practice through publication (poetry and essays), performance, and as art object. Tanya studied at University of Alberta (M.Ed.) and Stanford University (A.B. Honours) where she received the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and the Louis Sudler Prize for Creative and Performing Arts. She was awarded the Chalmers Professional Development Grant in 2010, K.M. Hunter Artist Award in Literature in 2013 and has received generous support from the Ontario Arts Council. She will begin her doctoral studies at Queen's University in the Cultural Studies program in 2015. She is Alutiiq from the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in Alaska. www.tanyalukinlinklater.com