Dene Plews is an agented Indigenous storyteller. She writes everything from contemporary romance to horror stories inspired by folklore specific to her Cree heritage.

In 2022, Dene’s article ‘Heart Medicine’ was published in Your McMurray Magazine. She was later asked to adapt one of her short stories to film for the Connection to the Land series. THE WIDOWMAKER premiered at the Buffy’s Award Show in October 2022.

Dene draws inspiration from her life experience as an Indigenous woman, her studies at the University of Alberta and pieces of her Norwegian-English ancestry. Dene is obsessed with music, and when she’s not writing, she can be found gallivanting about the woods with a camera in hand, mind-mapping her next big fantasy adventure.

Her debut novel, Queen of Thieves, is currently on submission. She is a member of the Fort McMurray No. 468 First Nation though she currently resides with her husband and their two children in Janvier on the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation.