Lareina Abbott pens Métis dark speculative fiction short stories and memoir essays. She won the 2023 Alberta Literary Award for best short story, and the 2025 Alberta Literary Award for best unpublished essay. She is also a two time first place winner of the Kemosa Scholarship. Her short stories and essays appear in anthologies such as Prairie Witch, Solstice in Purgatory, Prairie Fire, The Yellow Medicine Review, The Tyee, the Globe and Mail, and Indigenous Voices: Heart, Hope and Land by the International Human Rights Arts Movement. Her chapbook, “Pchit - Little One,’ published by Radical Press, features two magical realism short stories. 
    Lareina is an editor for the speculative fiction magazine ‘On Spec’ and is an alumna of the Audible Indigenous Writers Circle. She is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and her family names are Huppé, Desjarlais, and Cyr. She originates from a cattle ranch in northern British Columbia but currently lives and writes in Calgary/Mohkinstsis on MNA District 5 and Treaty 7 territory.