Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora Writer who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish People (Victoria, British Columbia) since 1994. Janet is an award-winning author who completed a 3-year term as Poet Laureate of the City of Victoria in the fall of 2014. Her work spans the genres of poetry, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poetry with music and script writing, and includes four collections of poetry, three poetry CDs (which received nominations for Best Spoken Word Recording at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, the Aboriginal Peoples’ Choice Music Awards and the Native American Music Awards), and two award-winning radio documentaries. She is also the host of Native Waves Radio on CFUV FM.