Monique Gray Smith
Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author and public speaker. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique's writing and her speaking engagements is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Her books include Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation , My Heart Fills With Happiness , You Hold Me Up , Lucy and Lola , Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience , Tilly and the Crazy Eights , When We Are Kind and I Hope . She also created the...See more
Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author and public speaker. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique's writing and her speaking engagements is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Her books include Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation , My Heart Fills With Happiness , You Hold Me Up , Lucy and Lola , Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience , Tilly and the Crazy Eights , When We Are Kind and I Hope . She also created the young adult adaptation of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Monique is Cree and Scottish. She lives with her family on the Traditional Territories of the L k n and WSÁNE Peoples. See less