[03/24/26] Lee, Erica Violet: On the Prairies We Will Live Forever

McClelland & Stewart, paperback

Publication Date: March 24, 2026

Publisher Marketing: "Erica Violet Lee makes her own traditions, weaving hope and promise throughout her poetry. You will be changed because you read her work." --Tracey Lindberg, author of Birdie

Erica Violet Lee's stunning debut poetry collection, On the Prairies We Will Live Forever, envisions a world where the inner-city is and has always been home on Native Land, and where good food, clean air, and a call for joy are the taste, smell, and sound of revolution.

Intertwining the political and the intimate in exquisitely crafted poems and prose, Lee explores love as a community care practice toward freedom. Her writing imagines that everyday thriving for Native girls from the hood to the rez is the sweetest resistance to a cruel colonial empire--one that is much more fragile than we are taught to believe.