Armand Garnet Ruffo (born in Chapleau, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar, filmmaker, writer and poet of Anishinaabe-Ojibwe ancestry.
His scholarly and creative writing has appeared in numerous literary anthologies and journals.
In the past, Ruffo has taught creative writing at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Tŷ Newydd” Centre for Literature Wales, in addition to Indigenous literature at the En'owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, B.C., and at Carleton University in Ottawa.
[3] Both Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing Into Thunderbird, and Treaty# were finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards.
[4] As a scholar, Ruffo has edited (Ad)Dressing Our Words: Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literatures (2001); An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English (2013); Introduction to Indigenous Literary Criticism (2016); An Anthology of Indigenous Literatures in English: Voices from Canada (2020); and Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont (2024).