Kyle Edwards (writer)

Kyle Edwards is an Anishinaabe writer from Canada, whose debut novel Small Ceremonies was published in 2025.[1] He is a member of the editorial staff at The New Yorker.[2]

A member of the Ebb and Flow First Nation in Manitoba,[1] he studied journalism at Ryerson University, and has published work for BBC News, Maclean's, Native News Online, CBC News and the Toronto Star.[3] From 2021 to 2023, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.[4] He is currently pursuing his doctorate in creative writing at the University of Southern California.[3]

Small Ceremonies was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2025 Governor General's Awards.[5] Small Ceremonies was also nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award.[6]

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