Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley
# Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley

Rachel Attituq Qitsualik-Tinsley is a Canadian writer. She was a winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2015 for Skraelings, which she cowrote with her husband Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley. The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.

The duo also cowrote the 2008 book Qanuq Pinngurnirmata, a volume of Inuit mythology. The book was reissued in 2015 as How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation.

She works as an Inuktitut language translator, and has written both non-fiction and short stories about Inuit culture. In 2012, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her writing.

In 2017, she ran as a candidate in the Nunavut territorial election for the electoral district of Quttiktuq. Qitsualik-Tinsley finished in last place in her riding, with 0 votes.

## Publications

| Year | Title | Author | Illustrator |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2011 | The Shadows that Rush Past | Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | Emily Fiegenschuh and Larry MacDougall |
| 2011 | Ajjiit | Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | Andrew Trabbold |
| 2012 | Under the Ice | Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | Jae Korim, Art Direction by Babah Kalluk |
| 2013 | The Raven and the Loon | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Kim Smith |
| 2014 | Skraelings | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Andrew Trabbold |
| 2014 | The Walrus Who Escaped | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Anthony Brennan |
| 2014 | Tuniit: Mysterious Folk of the Arctic | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Sean Bigham |
| 2015 | How Things Came To Be | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Emily Fiegenschuh and Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall |
| 2015 | Stories of Survival and Revenge: From Inuit Folklore | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Jeremy Mohler |
| 2017 | Why the Monster | Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | Toma Feizo Gas |
| 2019 | "Rosie", in This Place | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | GMB Chomichuk |
| 2019 | "Lounge", in Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories | Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | |
| 2020 | Tanna's Owl | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Yong Ling Kang |
| 2022 | Tanna's Lemming | Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | Tamara Campeau |
