She was a winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2015 for Skraelings, which she cowrote with her husband Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley.
[4] The duo also cowrote the 2008 book Qanuq Pinngurnirmata, a volume of Inuit mythology.
[5] She works as an Inuktitut language translator, and has written both non-fiction and short stories about Inuit culture.
[6] In 2012, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her writing.
[7] In 2017, she ran as a candidate in the Nunavut territorial election for the electoral district of Quttiktuq.