Norma Dunning (born 1959) is an Inuk Canadian writer and assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta,[1] who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collection Annie Muktuk and Other Stories.
[3] She published in 2020 a collection of poetry and stories entitled Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity.
Of Inuit descent through her mother, Dunning was born in Quebec and raised in a variety of towns as her father was a member of the Canadian military.
[6] Her second book Akia: The Other Side, is a collection of poetry that honors Inuit who lay in the past.
The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.