During the last twenty-five years of his life, Drew Hayden Taylor has done many things, most of which his proud of. An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations, he has worn many hats in his literary career, from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to lecturing at the British Museum on the films of Sherman Alexie. Over the last two decades, he has been an award-winning playwright (with over 70 productions of his work), a journalist/columnist (with a column in five newspapers across the country), short-story writer, novelist, scriptwriter (The Beachcombers, North of Sixty etc.), librettist, and has worked on over 17 documentaries exploring the Native experience, most notably he wrote and directed Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew, a documentary on Native humour for the National Film Board of Canada.

He has travelled to 16 countries around the world, spreading the gospel of Native literature to the world. Through this and many of his books, most notably the FUNNY, YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE ONE series, he has tried to educated and inform the world about issues that reflect and interfere in the lives of Canada's First Nations.

Self described as a contemporary story teller, this summer will see the production of the second season of MIXED BLESSINGS, a television comedy series he co-created and was the head writer for. Last summer, IN A WORLD CREATED BY A DRUNKEN GOD, a made-for-tv movie he wrote, based on his Governor General's nominated play was produced. The last two years has seen him proudly serve as the Writer in Residence at the University of Michigan and the University of Western Ontario. In August, Annick Press published his first novel, THE NIGHT WANDERER: A Native Gothic Novel, a teen story about an Ojibway vampire, and in April, his non-fiction book exploring the world of Native sexuality, called ME SEXY, will be published by Douglas & McIntyre. It is a follow up to his highly successful book on Native humour, ME FUNNY.

The author of 20 books in total, he plans to spend this coming year working on his second novel titled MOTORCYCLES AND SWEETGRASS, a new play called CREES IN THE CARRIBEAN, and finding the time to finally do his laundry.

Oddly enough, the thing his mother is most proud of is his ability to make spaghetti from scratch.