Lois Provost-Turchetti

mcprovost@rogers.com

Lois grew up with a foot in many camps. She has shared stories in Public, Catholic, Associated Hebrew Schools, Spiral Garden and taught at college level. Travelling with a "talking stone," Lois teaches that storying face-to-face recreates alternate ways of seeing and knowing others as people like yourself, and being of "mixed-blood and culture' can help you cross borders while respecting boundaries.

A mythteller, published freelance writer and artist in popular education, Lois works through Global Indigenous mythographies from ancestral times to the present. Her interests include: mythography, poesies, freeplay, science, peace-making, wellness, gardening and harvests of poverty.

Publications
Black Beauty Poetry, Canadian Women Studies Journal

The Writing in the Stone, Imagination Masters Workbook (Poetic Illusions)

Look Out! Here Comes the Third Millennium, Toronto Star (Contemporary Talks with Toronto's Kids)

The Anansi Christmas Story, Jamaica Weekly Gleaner (Caribbean Folklore)

Bombay Mango Dreams: Diary of a Colonial Kid, Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad (Feminist Fiction)