About me
Lareina Abbott is a Métis trickster spirit who pens dark speculative fiction and folklore stories and memoir essays.
She won the 2023 and 2025 Alberta Literary Awards for short story and unpublished essay and is a two time first place winner of the Kemosa Scholarship. Her writing is published in anthologies such as The Malahat Review, Prairie Witch, Solstice in Purgatory, Prairie Fire, The Yellow Medicine Review, The Tyee, the Globe and Mail, and Indigenous Voices: Heart, Hope and Land by the International Human Rights Arts Movement. Her chapbook, “Pchit - Little One,’ published by Radical Press, features two magical realism short stories.
Lareina is an editor for ‘On Spec’ magazine and is an alumna of the Audible Indigenous Writers Circle. She is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and her family names are Huppé, Desjarlais, and Cyr. She originates from a cattle ranch in northern British Columbia but currently lives in Calgary/Mohkinstsis.
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