Jenn Ashton is an Award-winning Sḵwx̱wú7mesh author, visual artist, and filmmaker. Her book of short stories, People Like Frank and Other Stories from The Edge of Normal (TidewaterPress 2020), was a finalist for the Indigenous Voices Award 2021. Jenn is an Authenticity Reader for Penguin/Random House USA, where she completed work in 2022 on Killers of the Flower Moon. She had her first Festival Screening in May 2023 with her short film, What the Dirt Don’t Like and will be participating in the upcoming 2023 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. When she is not writing, painting, or teaching, she enjoys cedar and wool weaving, making regalia and short films. Jenn studies History at Edinburgh University.