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 34 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
Dreaming Alongside
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
AVAILABLE NOW!
Let Dragonfly lead you on a journey of inspiration!
Following your winged guide, visit the places and things that can help you find strength in the present and imagine your amazing future. Dream alongside everything from a giant construction site and a sewing machine to the river and a blanket of moss. After your travels, Dragonfly asks: What do you like to dream about? With its mixed setting in rural and urban environments and exploration of both the natural and modern world, Dreaming Alongside gives readers permission to daydream and think of what magic their lives have the potential to hold.
What’s on the horizon?
September 2025
Kookum’s First Drum
January 2026
Monique will release a new adult non-fiction: Sharing the Light.