Jenny Kay Dupuis

Jenny Kay Dupuis is an award-winning, best-selling author, educator, artist, and well-sought after public speaker who focuses on raising awareness about Indigenous realities through literature and art.

Jenny Kay’s interests in her family’s past and her commitment to teaching about truth and remembrance through literature drew her to co-write the best-seller, ‘I Am Not a Number’, her first children’s book about her granny’s experience at a residential school in Canada. The book received a starred review from Kirkus, won numerous awards (e.g., Hackmatack Award, Red Cedar Award, and the Diamond Willow Award), was a multi-award finalist (e.g., Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award – TD Children’s Book Awards, Information Book Award – Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada, Silver Birch Express Award), and have been selected for many best books of the year lists.

Jenny Kay is a member of Nipissing First Nation and lives in Toronto, Ontario.