Lily H. Tuzroyluke, author of Sivulliq: Ancestor, is Inupiaq, Tlingit, and Nisga’a. Formerly employed in Tribal Government, she believes in protecting Tribal Sovereignty and subsistence ways of life. She lives a sober and smoke-free lifestyle, now over 22 years sober. Lily currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska with two children and a cairn terrier. Her next book is based in a 1950 Indigenous Residential School.