Julie Pellissier-Lush is an actress, and bestselling author of ‘My Mi’kmaq Mother’, Poet Laureate for PEI, recipient of the Queens jubilee medal in 2013, the Meritorious Service Medal recipient in 2017, and the Senators 150 metal in April 2019. Julie wrote the poems for the play ‘Mi’kmaq Legends’ in 2010 & they have been performed for the last 8 years on many different stages in the Atlantic region. Julie lives in PEI with her husband, her five children, & her granddaughter.