Gin Sexsmith

Gin Sexsmith is a mixed-Kanyen’kehá:ka, Indigiqueer novelist from Kenhtè:ke, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and Canadian Geographic’s discovery language editor.

Introspective, unapologetic, and forever for the girls, Gin’s work explores love, identity, sexuality, trauma and mental illness through a speculative lens. Her debut novel, In the Hands of Men, was published in May 2023 by Gilded Press, with its audiobook released on Audible in June 2024 and narrated by Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs. The novel is currently being adapted into a television series.

Before becoming a novelist, Gin earned a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. She is happy to be back in the reporting world, working with talented Indigenous writers and photographers to share stories of language preservation and revitalization.

Her work can be found in The Humber Literary Review, Exile Editions, HI Canada and Canadian Geographic. The sequel to In the Hands of Men, titled Medicine for Strength, will be published this year, and 2026 will see the release of Mutt, their non-fiction book of essays on imposter syndrome.

She is currently studying Kanyen’kéha in her community with the goal to tutor language learners one on one.