Monique believes that Love is Medicine.
Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, best-selling author and sought after consultant.
Monique is Cree and Scottish and has been sober and involved in her healing journey for over 33 years. She is well known for her storytelling, spirit of generosity and focus on resilience.
She has 12 books ranging for readers across the life span. Her books are used to share wisdom, knowledge, hope and the important teaching that love is medicine.
Children’s Books
My Heart Fills with Happiness
You Hold Me Up
When We Are Kind
Lucy and Lola
I Hope
Circle of Love
Young Adult and Adult books
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults.
Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation,
Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience.
Tilly and the Crazy Eights
Ancestors Approved: Fancy Dancer
Every Child Matters: Reconciliation Through Education
COMING APRIL 15, 2025!
What’s new?
These inspiring and informative sessions will focus on the importance of stories and storytelling in the field of education and other disciplines that support educating hearts, minds and spirits. Each guest will share how they use storytelling in their work, in class, administratively and in their writing.
Monique and her guests will also share stories from their own lives that have been impactful in how they work and in how they live their lives. They will be inspirational sessions that will leave participants thinking about their own stories, which stories to use in education and how to use the tools of storytelling in their work.
These sessions will be an hour in length, and will be held at 3:30pm Pacific / 6:30pm Eastern time
Newly Released Children’s Picture Book
Everyone is welcome in the circle.
In this warmhearted book, we join Molly at the Intertribal Community Center, where she introduces us to people she knows and loves: her grandmother and her grandmother’s wife, her uncles and their baby, her cousins, and her treasured friends.
They dance, sing, garden, learn, pray, and eat together. And tonight, they come together for a feast! Molly shares with the reader how each person makes her feel—and reminds us that love is love.
Through tender prose and radiant artwork, author Monique Gray Smith (Cree/Lakota) and illustrator Nicole Neidhardt (Diné) show how there is always room for others in our lives. Circle of Love is a story celebrating family, friends, community, and, most of all, love.
Includes an author’s note, contextual notes, and glossary.
September 2025
Kookum’s First Drum
January 2026
Monique will release a new adult non-fiction: Sharing the Light.