Marie-Andrée Gill (born 1986) is a Canadian poet from the community of Mashteuiatsh, in the Saguenay region, in Quebec, Canada.
[2] Marie-Andrée Gill is the author of multiple poetry collections published by Éditions de La Peuplade.
"[3] About Frayer, jury reviewer and poet Louise Dupré wrote: "Marie-Andrée Gill makes a voice of great singularity heard, which questions her genealogy and faces obstacles by seeking Attentive to the contradictions of desire, this book bears witness to an intense presence, in tension between the personal and the collective, realism and dreams, prosaism and poetic invention, fragility and revolt, gentleness and insolence, the past and the future, hope and non-hope.
"[3] In a review of Spawn, Steven W. Beattie focused on Gill's interest in describing her subjects with the scantest of words.
Her directness is understood when she writes about the claustrophobia of life on a reservation—“get me out of these fifteen square kilometres" and the conditions that the colonial system imposed upon her—“I am a village that didn’t have a choice.” The poems follow the life cycle of an ouananiche—a type of salmon—where Gill juxtaposes nature poetry with pop-culture references.