Medrie Purdham lives in Regina, SK, Treaty 4, and teaches at the University of Regina. Her first collection of poetry, Little Housewolf, was published by Véhicule Press in 2021. Her poems have appeared in journals across the country, have been broadcast on CBC Saskatchewan's Sound XChange  and have been featured several times in Tightrope Press's Best Canadian Poetry series. She won the City of Regina Writing Award in 2015 and was runner-up for Arc Magazine's Poem of the Year competition in 2019.