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Thérèse Pilon
Thérèse Pilon was born in Kingston, Ontario, and attended Sharbot Lake High School. She grew up in a farming community surrounded by forests, rivers, and lakes. Her deep respect fo...view moreThérèse Pilon was born in Kingston, Ontario, and attended Sharbot Lake High School. She grew up in a farming community surrounded by forests, rivers, and lakes. Her deep respect for nature and all things living were the catalyst for her early years of writing, and later, the teachings of The Native American People. Her main focus in those early years was raising her children. After winning the poetry competition for Southeastern Ontario in the early 1980s for best category for her poem “Moon,” the adventures of Skye began.
What began as a bedtime story for her children, Naiomi-Leah and Nickolous, changed and grew until it became Son of Skye, and later, Daughter of Skye. It has been a journey influenced by the aboriginal teachings and Ms. Pilon’s own teachings that is ever-changing, with the beginning yet to be written…
Her first book, Son of Skye, (sonofskye.authorsxpress.com) was published in 2011. An exhilarating young adult novel: Born of two worlds—belonging to neither—Nickolous is thrust into a world where the clans of the four-legged and winged rule. Guided by an old she-rat and his own instincts, he learns who he is while fighting to protect a world that has awaited his coming since its own dawning. Those who walk within the sacred places give of themselves to protect him so that legend, once myth, can become reality.
Thérèse currently lives in Uxbridge, Ontario, working on a horse ranch with her husband and sons, and writing in her spare time. Her husband, Dan, is a member of the Mattawa/North Bay Algonquin First Nation, while her own roots are linked to the Haudenosaunee, the teachings of her grandmothers part of the way she writes, her understanding always changing as she continues to learn.
Thérèse’s summer weekends are spent on the powwow trail. She is a woman’s traditional dancer and never misses an opportunity to learn from the elders she meets; their wisdom and their teachings are a continuing cycle of knowledge to be passed on. She still finds time to prepare her own preserves and make medicine from the abundance of plants that surrounds her. With her children mostly grown, she now spends more time on her writing.
Her next book is a sequel to Daughter of Skye, in which Leah and The Hunter must find a way to return to Skye.
Something dark has awakened. Something that threatens the worlds of knowing...view less