Armand Garnet Ruffo

Armand Garnet Ruffo is an Ojibway filmmaker, writer and poet. His most recent poetry collection Treaty #, published in 2019, was a finalist for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.

His other books include Grey Owl, Norval Morrisseau and The Thunderbird Poems. In 2016, he received a lifetime achievement award from the League of Canadian Poets. Ruffo lives in Kingston, Ont. and is a professor of creative writing at Queens University.

Ruffo, along with Canadian poets Megan Gail Coles and Hoa Nguyen, is on the jury for the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize. 

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Interviews with Armand Garnet Ruffo

The Next Chapter2:00How painter Norval Morrisseau got his spirit name

Armand Garnet Ruffo tells Shelagh how the renowned Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau got his spirit name, Copper Thunderbird.

The Next Chapter12:30Armand Garnet Ruffo on Norval Morrisseau

In honour of his Latner Prize win, The Next Chapter revisits his 2015 conversation with Shelagh Rogers on writing the biography of artist Norval Morrisseau.