Book Chyana Marie Sage, Creativity Speaker
About This Speaker
Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree and Métis memoirist, journalist, essayist, poet, model, and public speaker from amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta). Her work explores Indigenous identity, intergenerational healing, and the power of storytelling.
Chyana’s essay Soar won first place in the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and earned a Silver Medal at the National Magazine Awards. Her debut memoir, Soft as Bones (House of Anansi Press), became a national bestseller, won the Foreword INDIES Gold Award for Memoir, and was named one of CBC Books’ Best Canadian Books of the Year.
Chyana holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University, where she became the first Indigenous graduate of the program. She later returned as an adjunct professor of creative writing. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, Electric Literature, The Toronto Star, and other publications.
She now serves as Digital Media Lead at Indspire, Canada’s largest Indigenous-led charity supporting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students. She uses storytelling to celebrate Indigenous excellence and inspire the next generation through national campaigns and digital media.
As a keynote speaker, Chyana has presented at universities, literary festivals, conferences, and schools across Canada and the United States. She speaks on storytelling, healing, creativity, resilience, and Indigenous perspectives.
Chyana Marie Sage is also a model and advocate for Indigenous representation in fashion. In 2026, she competed on Season 12 of The Amazing Race Canada. Together with her sister Chayla Delaney Rain, she co-founded the Soft as Bones Storytelling Foundation, which hosts the Woven Skies Storytelling Festival.
Chyana believes stories have the power to reconnect us to ourselves, to each other, and to culture.
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