Dimaline, Cherie: - Cherie Dimaline is an author from the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Canada. Her 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves, won the Governor General's Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers among others. The Marrow Thieves was named a Book of Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and the CBC, has been translated into several languages, and continues to be a Canadian national bestseller years later. Cherie lives in Canada where she is adapting work for stage and film and working on her new novels.