Brittany Penner is an author, practicing family physician and lecturer with the University of Manitoba Max Rady College of Medicine, and a child of the Sixties Scoop. Her debut memoir, Children Like Us, A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home, was an instant national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in Oprah Daily, Salon, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Huffington Post Canada, This Magazine and Canadian Family Physician, and typically revolve around the complex nature of identity and family dynamics. She lives in rural Manitoba with her husband, their daughter, and their cats.