Staci Lola Drouillard is a Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe direct descendant. She lives and works in her hometown of Kitchibitobig—Grand Marais, on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her first book Walking the Old Road won the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History, the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. Her second book Seven Aunts won the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and the NE Minnesota Book Award and was a “Minnesota Reads” selection at the Library of Congress National Book Festival. A Family Tree is her first children’s picture book.