Starlit Simon
Associate Professor
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Email: starlit.simon@acadiau.ca
Education
BA (UNB, Saint Thomas University), MA (University of Kings College), PhD (UNB, in progress)
Starlit Simon is Mi’kmaq from Elsipogtog First Nation and a full time PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick in the Faculty of Education. She has previously worked as a Mi’kmaw language instructor and as an academic advisor to Indigenous post-secondary students at UNB. Starlit received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UNB in 2006 and her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Saint Thomas University in 2012. She went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Kings College in 2015. Her writing has been published in the National Geographic Traveler, Dawnland Voices, Dawnland Voices 2.0 and The Fiddlehead. She is often found on the sides of highways harvesting porcupine quills from roadkill for her artwork. Simon has had her artwork on display at the Saint John Art Gallery and the UNB Art Centre and has been an award recipient of the Arts NB Equinox Program in 2020, 2021 and 2023. She was also selected as a participant for the Arts Link Cross Cultural Creation Residency in the Spring of 2021 and has given Artist Talks at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and at the Atlantic Artist Symposium. Simon’s academic research focuses on “Exploring Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk) Through Land Based Art Production to Facilitate Healing with Mi’kmaq Youth in Digital and Physical Spaces.”